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Saturn

Image on the Right: obtained from this NASA/JPL site; image on the Left: obtained from this NASA Newsletter. See also the wikipedia page titled, Saturn's hexagon.

Several key references:

[Paper DMTF (2006)] M. C. R. D'Souza, P. M. Motl, J. E. Tohline & J. Frank (2006), ApJ, 643, p. 381: Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Stability of dynamical Mass Transfer in Binaries
[Paper MFTD (2007)] P. M. Motl, J. Frank, J. E. Tohline & M. C. R. D'Souza (2007), ApJ, 670, p. 1314: The Stability of Double White Dwarf Binaries Undergoing Direct-Impact Accretion
[Paper MFSCFEDT (2017)] P. M. Motl, J. Frank, J. Staff, G. C. Clayton, C. L. Fryer, W. Even, S. Diehl & J. E. Tohline (2017), ApJSuppl., Vol. 229, Issue 2, article id. 27, 41 pp.: A Comparison of Grid-based and SPH Binary Mass-transfer and Merger Simulations

MFTD (2007) Model Q0.4D Animation: video4.mpg (link is in caption of their Figure 3)	MFSCFEDT (2017) Model Q0.4P_S1 Animation: apjsaa5bdef26_video.mpg (link is in caption of their Figure 26)	MFSCFEDT (2017) ^†Model Q0.5P_G1 Animation: apjsaa5bdef21_video.mpg (link is in caption of their Figure 21)



^†The evolution identified here as Model Q0.5P_G1 was first discussed in §5.2 of DMTF (2006), wherein it was identified as Model Q0.5-Da; the caption to Figure 7 of that paper contains a link to an (mpeg_file) animation that displays a 3D rendering of this model's evolution.

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-Model Q0.5P_G1 <br />Animation:  apjsaa5bdef21_video.mpg<br />
+<sup>&dagger;</sup>Model Q0.5P_G1 <br />Animation:  apjsaa5bdef21_video.mpg<br />
 (link is in caption of their [https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aa5bde#apjsaa5bdef21 Figure 21])
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    <td align="center" bgcolor="black">[[File:Q0.5P_G1_triangleD.png|300px]]</td>
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+  <td align="left" colspan="3"><sup>&dagger;</sup>The evolution identified here as Model Q0.5P_G1 was first discussed in &sect;5.2 of [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006ApJ...643..381D/abstract DMTF (2006)], wherein it was identified as Model Q0.5-Da; the caption to Figure 7 of that paper contains a link to an (mpeg_file) animation that displays a 3D rendering of this model's evolution.</td>
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