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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