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Discovery of 12 satellites of Saturn exhibiting orbital clustering
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The giant planets in the Solar System each have two groups of satellites. The regular satellites move along nearly circular orbits in the planet's orbital plane, revolving about it in the same sense as the planet spins. In contrast, the so-called irregular satellites are generally smaller in size and are characterized by large orbits with significant eccentricity, inclination or both. The differences in their characteristics suggest that the regular and irregular satellites formed by different mechanisms: the regular satellites are believed to have formed in an accretion disk around the planet, like a miniature Solar System, whereas the irregulars are generally thought to be captured planetesimals. Here we report the discovery of 12 irregular satellites of Saturn, along with the determinations of their orbits. These orbits, along with the orbits of irregular satellites of Jupiter and Uranus, fall into groups on the basis of their orbital inclinations. We interpret this result as indicating that most of the irregular moons are collisional remnants of larger satellites that were fragmented after capture, rather than being captured independently.
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“The stability of distant retrograde orbits is also demonstrated by many captured moons in the Solar System (Gladman et al., 2001;Nesvorný et al., 2014) and are beneficial for future space missions (Ming and Shijie 2009;Bezrouk and Parker 2017).”
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“These groups were suggested to represent remnants of disrupted larger objects (Colombo & Franklin 1971; Pollack et al. 1979; Gladman et al. 2001).”
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- Authors
- Gladman, B., Kavelaars, J. J., Holman, M., Nicholson, P. D., Burns, J. A., Hergenrother, C. W., Petit, J.-M., Marsden, B. G., Jacobson, R., Gray, W., & Grav, T.
- Affiliations
- Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (FR)
- McMaster University (CA)
- Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Gladman, Brett
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2001-07
- Volume
- 412
- Issue
- 6843
- Pages
- 163-166
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1593313287
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 7.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Space Satellite Systems and Control
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Keywords
- Saturn, irregular satellites, orbital clustering, orbital inclination, satellite capture, collisional fragmentation, satellite formation flying, orbital dynamics, Uranus
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