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Hah! I bet I have an explanation of Saturn's rings, including the
ripples and braids. It's just a four-body resonance strange attractor. There's Saturn. Then there's two very small moons close together in resonance (7:8 or such). Those moons close together form a gravitational basin, sort of like the Lagrange points set up by Sun+Jupiter. And there is a bunch of pebble like stuff orbiting the center of that basin, like marbles in a bowl. Like the Trojan asteroids in the Sun+Jupiter's lagrange point. Fancier stuff, like ring particles interacting or something special about Saturn's oblateness, wouldn't be relevant. If that's right, I should have no trouble throwing together a simulation of it with my orbit applet. I'll try that tonight. |
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