... Yet the ring particles seldom stray more than a few hundred meters from a perfectly flat plane, making the rings the height of a 30-story building. ...
... For details on observing the rings, see "Running Rings Around a Planet," Mercury ... stripe just outside the 'A' ring is the infamous 'F' ring, discovered by the Pioneer ...
... Although details of Laplace s ring-formation dynamics did not survive closer scrutiny in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell, Laplace s ideas may still have had a ring of truth about them, as we will see. ...
... Rings Space between Saturn and the `C' ring 14,180 km wide Side View `A' Ring 14,610 ... cm `A' ring Cassini division `B' ring `C' ring Space between Saturn and `C'ring 14 ...
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