DETECTION OF HIDDEN RESONANCES IN SATURNS B-RING

The Voyager 2 Photopolarimeter experiment has yielded the highest reso lved data of Saturn's rings, exhibiting a wide variety of features. Th e B-ring region between 105,000 and 110,000 km from Saturn has been in vestigated. It has a high matter density and contains no significant f eatures visible by eye. Analysis with statistical methods has led us t o the detection of two significant events. These features are correlat ed with the inner 3:2 resonances of the F-ring shepherd satellites Pan dora and Prometheus and may be evidence of large ring particles caught in the corotation resonances. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.