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Holsapple, K. A. (December 2001). "Equilibrium Configurations of Solid Cohesionless Bodies". Icarus. 154 (2): 432–448. Bibcode: 2001Icar..154..432H. doi: 10.1006/icar.2001.6683. Discovery and exploration: Saturn’s majestic rings were bright enough to be seen through Galileo Galilei’s telescope in 1610. However, the legendary scientist wasn’t exactly sure what he was looking at, and thought the rings might be moons or arms of some sort. It wasn’t until 1659 that Christiaan Huygens correctly deduced that Saturn had a ring system that encircled the planet. A ring system is a disc or ring, orbiting an astronomical object, that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component of satellite systems around giant planets like Saturn. A ring system around a planet is also known as a planetary ring system. [1] A second centaur, 2060 Chiron, is also suspected to have a pair of rings. [26] [27] Based on stellar-occultation data that were initially interpreted as resulting from jets associated with Chiron's comet-like activity, the rings are proposed to be 324 (± 10) km in radius. Their changing appearance at different viewing angles can explain the long-term variation in Chiron's brightness over time. [27]

Compare the major rings of Saturn and explain the role of the moon Enceladus in the formation of the E ring Discovery and exploration: Neptune hinted to astronomers that it might have rings during a stellar occultation in 1984. Proof came in 1989, when Voyager 2 captured definitive images of the icy world’s rings. Like Uranus, Neptune’s rings can now be studied with ground and space-based telescopes, although Neptune’s farther distance from the Sun makes studying its rings more of a challenge. text{angular resolution } = \frac{206,265 \text{ arcsec} \times 10}{1.4 \times 10 When Cassini was directed to fly into the plumes, it measured their composition and found them to be similar to material we see liberated from comets (see Comets and Asteroids: Debris of the Solar System). The vapor and ice plumes consisted mostly of water, but with trace amounts of nitrogen, ammonia, methane, and other hydrocarbons. Minerals found in the geysers in trace amounts included ordinary salt, meaning that the geyser plumes were high-pressure sprays of salt water. The whole spectacle lasts around 30 seconds. It nearly always elicits a few cheers and a round of applause.

Jones, G. H.; etal. (2008-03-07). "The Dust Halo of Saturn's Largest Icy Moon, Rhea". Science. 319 (5868): 1380–1384. Bibcode: 2008Sci...319.1380J. doi: 10.1126/science.1151524. PMID 18323452. S2CID 206509814. Collection" . https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=494614&objectid=55055. The three rings are oriented with respect to the local meridian, the planet's equator, and a celestial object. The instrument itself can be used as a plumb bob to align it with the vertical. The instrument is then rotated until a single light beam passes through two points on the instrument. This fixes the orientation of the instrument in all three axes. The smaller circle within the larger one is the zodiacal ring, and is surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac.

A ring is a collection of vast numbers of particles, each like a tiny moon obeying Kepler’s laws as it follows its own orbit around the planet. Thus, the inner particles revolve faster than those farther out, and the ring as a whole does not rotate as a solid body. In fact, it is better not to think of a ring rotating at all, but rather to consider the revolution (or motion in orbit) of its individual moonlets. Wallis,Helen(1984)."England's Search for the Northern Passages in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries". Arctic 37(4): 453–472. doi: 10.14430/arctic2228. Seeing the hourly display of the Apostles is almost a rite of passage if you’re visiting Prague. The display is a bit of fun – you should see it once, but may not feel compelled to do so a second time. Having Our Little Man with me on my travels around Prague has meant I’ve seen it a great many times!The British Museum has a collection of several armillary sphere rings that are incredibly well-crafted and detailed. When closed, they look like any other ring, but as the different bands are fanned out, the rings take on a unique quality. Built with anywhere between two to eight moving bands, these intricate pieces of jewelry would need to have been executed by skilled craftsmen. Saturn's Rings May Be Old Timers". NASA (News Release 2007-149). December 12, 2007. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-04-11. It had been theorized by some astronomers that Pluto might have a ring system. [24] However, this possibility has been ruled out by New Horizons, which would have detected any such ring system. Elliot, J. L.; Dunham, E.; Mink, D. (1977-05-26). "The rings of Uranus". Nature. 267 (5609): 328–330. Bibcode: 1977Natur.267..328E. doi: 10.1038/267328a0. S2CID 4194104.

The dial inside this, with Roman numerals, indicates Star Time. Also known as sidereal time, this is based on when the vernal equinox passes the upper meridian.frac{ \text{angular diameter}}{206,265 \text{ arcsec}}= \frac{ \text{linear diameter}}{\text{distance}} \nonumber\] Fixed astronomical rings are mounted on a plinth, like armillary spheres, and can be used as sundials. Lakdawalla, E. (2015-01-27). "A second ringed centaur? Centaurs with rings could be common". Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 2015-01-31 . Retrieved 2015-01-31. Sutton, P. J. (2019). "Mean motion resonances with nearby moons: an unlikely origin for the gaps observed in the ring around the exoplanet J1407b". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486 (2): 1681–1689. arXiv: 1902.09285. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz563. S2CID 119546405. Watch the Apostles’ parade, but also keep an eye on the skeleton below – we think he’s the star of the show!

This ring is sometimes engraved with the months on one side and corresponding zodiac signs on the outside; very similar to an astrolabe. Mid 18th Century Brass Astronomical ring dial. - Gilai Collectibles" . http://www.gilai.com/product_848/Mid-18th-Century-Brass-Astronomical-ring-dial..The altitude of the sun does not change much in a single day at the poles (where the sun rises and sets once a year), so rough measurements of solar altitude don't vary with time of day at high latitudes. Kalas, Paul; Graham, James R; Chiang, Eugene; Fitzgerald, Michael P; Clampin, Mark; Kite, Edwin S; Stapelfeldt, Karl; Marois, Christian; Krist, John (2008). "Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth". Science. 322 (5906): 1345–8. arXiv: 0811.1994. Bibcode: 2008Sci...322.1345K. doi: 10.1126/science.1166609. PMID 19008414. S2CID 10054103. Petr Pokorný; Marc Kuchner (Mar 12, 2019). "Co-orbital Asteroids as the Source of Venus's Zodiacal Dust Ring". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 873 (2): L16. arXiv: 1904.12404. Bibcode: 2019ApJ...873L..16P. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0827. S2CID 127456764. There are likely other ring systems in our Solar System that have evaded detection. Mars may have faint dust rings fed by Phobos and Deimos, but efforts to find them have been unsuccessful. Some scientists thought Pluto would have a faint dust ring, but it was not detected when the New Horizons spacecraft flew past the dwarf planet in 2015.