Hori Auxiliary System for Mimas-Tethys

The Crater Production Functions for Mimas

Introduction: The highly successful Voyager [1,2] and Cassini [3] imaging experiments revealed high quality imaging data that allows for a reasonably good analysis of the crater distributions on the Saturnian satellites [4,5,6]. The observed crater distributions appear to conflict with theoretical crater distributions that are derived from observed projectile populations [6,7]. In order to comp...

Tidal evolution of Mimas, Enceladus, and Dione

The tidal evolution through several resonances involving Mimas, Enceladus, and/or Dione is studied numerically with an averaged resonance model. We find that, in the Enceladus–Dione 2:1 e-Enceladus type resonance, Enceladus evolves chaotically in the future for some values of k2/Q. Past evolution of the system is marked by temporary capture into the Enceladus–Dione 4:2 ee ′-mixed resonance. We ...

A Generalisation of the Hori - Vafa Conjecture

Classification of Satellite Resonances in the Solar System

Several pairs of solar system satellites occupy mean motion resonances (MMRs). We divide these into two groups according to their proximity to exact resonance. Proximity is measured by the existence of a separatrix in phase space. MMRs between Io–Europa, Europa–Ganymede, and Enceladus–Dione are too distant from exact resonance for a separatrix to appear. A separatrix is present only in the phas...

Reaching your end-user with MIMAS

IASSIST Quarterly Winter 2002 IASSIST Quarterly Winter 2002 13 Abstract: In the last five years the exponential growth and use of electronic resources has surpassed all former predictions. The rise in use of e-journals, bibliographic databases and research support facilities has resulted in the researcher relying far more heavily on web based resources than ever before. One of the acknowledged ...