Rings formation

[Sanduleak]

It is a cold & rainy day today in France so I took the time to make a new US video showing how moons can split rings into sub-rings that remain stable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk6F-H4tTE4

(In attachment: the system at start up and after a few thousand years)

[deoxy99]

Do you really live in France?

[Naru523]

That is epic. Gotta love gravity.

[atomic7732]

yay for shepherd moon/planets

[Darvince]

yay for France and shepherd and life and 42

[Dan Dixon]

Do you really live in France?

Yes, I believe Sanduleak does.

Do you really live in the United States?


This is a really cool video Sanduleak. Thanks for sharing.

[deoxy99]

Dan, why are there return feeds (what you get when you press the enter key) in your post?

[APODman]

Study the behavior and evolution of disks of particles under the influence of planets in accretion is fascinating.

Something that would be interesting to do is to launch at low speed ( and outside of the disk but in the same plane) a planet with the mass of Jupiter toward the star simulating a stochastic migration and observe what effect it would cause the disk.

The disk would be re-aggregates after the passage of the giant planet that would allow new planets arose in the wake of the passage big body ? This would explain why we have extrasolar planets in systems where giant planets are close to the star due to migration processes?

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