Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10701331 | Icarus | 2013 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Dust grains generated by the Uranian irregular satellites will undergo chaotic large-amplitude eccentricity oscillations under the simultaneous action of radiation forces and the highly misaligned quadrupole potentials of the oblate planet and distant Sun. From a suite of orbital histories, we estimate collision probabilities of dust particles with the regular satellites and argue that this process may explain the observed hemispherical color asymmetries of the outermost four regular satellites of Uranus.
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Authors
Daniel Tamayo, Joseph A. Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton,