Morbidelli, A. and Tsiganis, K. and Batygin, K. and Crida, A. and Gomes, R. (2012) Explaining why the uranian satellites have equatorial prograde orbits despite the large planetary obliquity. Icarus, 219 (2). pp. 737-740. ISSN 0019-1035. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.025. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120711-122936061
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Abstract
We show that the existence of prograde equatorial satellites is consistent with a collisional tilting scenario for Uranus. In fact, if the planet was surrounded by a proto-satellite disk at the time of the tilting and a massive ring of material was temporarily placed inside the Roche radius of the planet by the collision, the proto-satellite disk would have started to precess incoherently around the equator of the planet, up to a distance greater than that of Oberon. Collisional damping would then have collapsed it into a thin equatorial disk, from which the satellites eventually formed. The fact that the orbits of the satellites are prograde requires Uranus to have had a non-negligible initial obliquity (comparable to that of Neptune) before it was finally tilted to 98°.
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Additional Information: | © 2012 Elsevier Inc. Received 16 November 2011; Revised 23 March 2012; Accepted 27 March 2012; Available online 3 April 2012. | ||||||||||||
Subject Keywords: | Uranus; Uranus, Satellites; Satellites, Formation; Satellites, Dynamics | ||||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 2 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.025 | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | A. Morbidelli, K. Tsiganis, K. Batygin, A. Crida, R. Gomes, Explaining why the uranian satellites have equatorial prograde orbits despite the large planetary obliquity, Icarus, Volume 219, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 737-740, ISSN 0019-1035, 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.025. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103512001182) | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Aucoeur Ngo | ||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 11 Jul 2012 20:29 | ||||||||||||
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