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Smoluchowski 1981
Smoluchowski, R. (1981). The F-ring of saturn. Geophysical Research Letters 8: doi: 10.1029/GL008i006p00623. issn: 0094-8276.

One of the startling discoveries made by the Voyager Saturn flyby is the existence of a split and twisted F-ring located outside of the well known A-ring of this planet. It is proposed that the twist is the result of the action of Saturn's magnetic field on charged particles in the F-ring. A quantitative argument shows that small particles will be deflected away from a circular orbit maintained by the larger particles. The two ''shepherding'' satellites prevent the small particles from being lost entirely from the ring.

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