Mission Information
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| MISSION_NAME |
SATURN SMALL SATELLITE ASTROMETRY
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| MISSION_ALIAS |
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| MISSION_START_DATE |
1994-12-01T12:00:00.000Z
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| MISSION_STOP_DATE |
2005-01-14T12:00:00.000Z
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| MISSION_DESCRIPTION |
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| MISSION_OBJECTIVES_SUMMARY |
Mission Objectives Overview =========================== The primary intent of this investigation was to refine orbital information for Prometheus and Pandora and if possible to determine the cause or causes of the apparent changes in the orbits of the two satellites since the Voyager encounters (FRENCHETAL2003).
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| REFERENCE_DESCRIPTION |
Bosh, A.S. and A.S. Rivkin, Observations of Saturn's inner satellites during the May 1995 ring-plane crossing, Science, 272, 518-521, 1996.
French, R.G., C.A. McGhee, L. Dones, and J.J. Lissauer, Saturn's wayward shepherds: the peregrinations of Prometheus and Pandora, Icarus 162, 143-170, 2003.
French, R.G., C.A. McGhee, M. Frey, R. Hock, S. Rounds, R. Jacobson, and A. Verbiscer, Astrometry of Saturn's Satellites from the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2, PASP 118, 246-259, 2006.
McGhee, C.A., P.D. Nicholson, R.G. French, and K.J. Hall, HST Observations of Saturnian Satellites during the 1995 Ring Plane Crossing, Icarus, 152, 282-315, 2001
Nicholson, P.D., M.R. Showalter, L. Dones, R.G. French, S.M. Larson, J.J. Lissauer, C.A. McGhee, B. Sicardy, P. Seitzer, and G.E. Danielson, Observations of Saturn's ring-plane crossing in August and November 1995, Science, 272, 509- 516, 1996
Synnott, S.P., R.J. Terrile, R.A. Jacobson, and B.A. Smith, Orbits of Saturn's F ring and its shepherding satellites, Icarus, 53, 156-158, 1983
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