Image Details
Caption: Figure 11.
Snapshot of the
N-body simulation shown in Figure
10, at the normalized time 0.45. In this simulation, a 20 m radius moonlet is embedded in a swarm of 1 m radius ring particles,
and the radial location from the central planet corresponds to
for moonlet–particle collisions (ε
n = 0.5, τ = 10
−2).
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