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The three rings A, B and C of Saturn and the two gaps French and Cassini divisions in between them have been subjected to a study of deterministic chaos and we have shown the existence of spatially distributed strange attractors, implying thereby that the system is open, dissipative, nonequilibrium and non-Markovian in character.
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Lalaja, V., Nampoori, V.P.N. & Pratap, R. Strange attractors in the Saturn ring system. Earth Moon Planet 44, 105–119 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00056311
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