I use data from NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn to investigate the small-scale structure of the planet's rings. In addition to yielding insights about the interactions between planets, moons, and rings, studying small-scale structure could lead to a better understanding of protoplanetary disks and the planet formation process.
Selected Recent Publications:
Kenneth J. Mighell, Morgan Rehnberg, Robert Crawford, Mark Trueblood, and Larry A. Lebofsky, 2012, PhAst: An IDL Astronomical Image Viewer Optimized for Astrometry of Near Earth Objects, PASP, 124, 1360-1368.