ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PHENOMENA OF THE MAGNETISM IN IRON SHIPS, AS TO ITS ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTION OF POLAR FORCE AND EQUATORIAL PLANE, AND SUBSEQUENT CHANGES

Author(s):  
William Scoresby
1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Burns

ABSTRACTLying in Jupiter's equatorial plane is a diaphanous ring having little substructure within its three components (main band, faint disk, and halo). Micron-sized grains account for much of the visible ring, but particles of centimeter sizes and larger must also be present to absorb charged particles. Since dynamical evolution times and survival life times are quite short (≲102-3yr) for small grains, the Jovian ring is being continually replenished; probably most of the visible ring is generated by micrometeoroids colliding into unseen parent bodies that reside in the main band.


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