Friday, September 30, 2016

what are the rings of saturn

pluto  is now considered a dwarf rather than a true planet It is on the edge of deep  space it was only  discovered in 1930 as a result  of calculation to find out why Neptune  orbit was being disturbed by an unknown body.  Shining rings of billions of tiny  tips of ice rock  and dust surround saturn The  rings reflect light strongly and can be clearly seen through a telescope  from the earth it was first  thought  that saturn had three wide rings but it is now known that the rings are actually  make up of thousands of narrow ringlets. The rings are only 100m (328ft) thick but they extend into space for 76,00km (47mi) The material in rings was probably captured by saturn gravity when the solar was forming or it might be the remains of a moon that has broken up Recently space probes discovered that some of the ring  are braided or twisted.


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