num_pages: 458
description: This monograph presents the first comprehensive and detailed explanation for the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune, exploring their striking, recently discovered structures such as narrow ringlets, spiral waves, and chain of vortices. This authoritative book is written in an accessible and engrossing style and is supplemented with an array of informative illustrations that will be of interest to professional and amateur astronomers, physicists, and students.
language: English
title: Physics of Planetary Rings: Celestial Mechanics of Continuous Media
titlecomplete: Physics of Planetary Rings: Celestial Mechanics of Continuous Media (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
ratings_count: 2
series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
publisher: Springer