Moonlet

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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Minor-planet_moon/hIzB5S7X">Minor-planet moon</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Natural_satellite/AE4KQKbq">Natural satellite</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ring_system/KNCgIIX7">Ring system</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?q=moonlet&btnG=Search+Books">Google Book Search for "moonlet"</a></li></ul>

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<p><a href="https://content.cld.iop.org/journals/1538-3881/135/3/1083/revision1/aj262114_mrt2.txt">List of moonlets</a>
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<li id="fn:1"><p>Winter, Othon C.; et al. (2007). "Moonlets wandering on a leash-ring". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 380 (1): L54 – L57. Bibcode:2007MNRAS.380L..54W. doi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00347.x. hdl:11449/33832. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1745-3933.2007.00347.x" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1745-3933.2007.00347.x</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Tiscareno, Matthew S.; et al. (2006). "100-metre-diameter moonlets in Saturn's A ring from observations of 'propeller' structures". Nature. 440 (7084): 648–650. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..648T. doi:10.1038/nature04581. PMID 16572165. S2CID 9688977. <a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" target="_blank">/wiki/Nature_(journal)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Sremčević, Miodrag; et al. (2007). "A belt of moonlets in Saturn's A ring". Nature. 449 (7165): 1019–1021. Bibcode:2007Natur.449.1019S. doi:10.1038/nature06224. PMID 17960236. S2CID 4330204. <a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" target="_blank">/wiki/Nature_(journal)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Murray, Carl D.; et al. (June 5, 2008). "The determination of the structure of Saturn's F ring by nearby moonlets" (PDF). Nature. 453 (7196). The Science and Technology Facilities Council: 739–44. Bibcode:2008Natur.453..739M. doi:10.1038/nature06999. PMID 18528389. S2CID 205213483. <a href="https://hal-cea.archives-ouvertes.fr/cea-00930885/file/mur.pdf" target="_blank">https://hal-cea.archives-ouvertes.fr/cea-00930885/file/mur.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Marchis, Franck; et al. (2005). "Discovery of the triple asteroidal system 87 Sylvia". Nature. 436 (7052): 822–24. Bibcode:2005Natur.436..822M. doi:10.1038/nature04018. PMID 16094362. S2CID 4412813. <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nb376hk" target="_blank">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nb376hk</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Fieseler P. D.; Adams O. W.; Vandermey N.; Theilig E. E.; Schimmels K. A.; Lewis G. D.; Ardalan S. M.; Alexander C. J. (2004). "The Galileo star scanner observations at Amalthea". Icarus. 169 (2): 390–401. Bibcode:2004Icar..169..390F. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.01.012. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Walker, Robert (17 April 2015). "Can Moons Have Moonlets? Or Rings? Moonlets Of Pluto's Moons?". Science 2.0. Retrieved 9 April 2016. <a href="http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/can_moons_have_moonlets_or_rings_moonlets_of_plutos_moons-154917" target="_blank">http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/can_moons_have_moonlets_or_rings_moonlets_of_plutos_moons-154917</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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