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Referee's report by Frederick John Marrian Stratton, on a paper 'The influence of satellites upon the form of Saturn's ring' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough

Reference number: RR/26/49

Date: 09 May 1921

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The ideas are interesting but not fully established. The satellite Titan poses a problem, as if the theory is applied to it, it should 'sweep the whole ring system away'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1922]

Endorsed on recto as received 11 May 1921.

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RR/26/49
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09 May 1921
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Frederick John Marrian Stratton, Referee's report by Frederick John Marrian Stratton, on a paper 'The influence of satellites upon the form of Saturn's ring' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, 09 May 1921, RR/26/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_49/referees-report-by-frederick-john-marrian-stratton-on-a-paper-the-influence-of-satellites-upon-the-form-of-saturns-ring-by-george-ridsdale-goldsbrough, accessed on 21 January 2025

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