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    the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn. The concept that Saturn's rings are made up of a series of tiny ringlets can be traced...
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  • In Saturn's Rings is a large format movie about Saturn made exclusively from real photographs taken by spacecraft. Director Stephen van Vuuren used more...
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    rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but which has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth due to Saturn's larger...
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    most of any planet in the solar system. This number does not include the many thousands of moonlets embedded within Saturn's dense rings, nor hundreds of...
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  • wide, faint "gossamer rings". The system consists mostly of dust. Saturn's rings are the most extensive ring system of any planet in the Solar System, and...
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  • The Rings of Saturn (German: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English Pilgrimage) is a 1995 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald...
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    the band formed a full line-up and became a full-time touring band. Rings of Saturn's music features a highly technical style, heavily influenced by themes...
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    The 1954 novel The Secret of Saturn's Rings by Donald A. Wollheim and the 1958 novel Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn by Isaac Asimov are both set...
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  • The rings of Saturn are an extensive set of planetary rings in orbit about the planet Saturn. Rings of Saturn may also refer to: The Rings of Saturn, a...
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  • Rings of Saturn is the sixth studio album by American deathcore band Rings of Saturn. It was self-produced and was self-released by the band on June 15...
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    passes by the rings and planet enabled scientists to measure the length of a day on Saturn: 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds. Saturn's rings are relatively...
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    in the late 1970s, Peter Goldreich, Frank Shu, and others applied density wave theory to the rings of Saturn. Saturn's rings (particularly the A Ring)...
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    Mimas (redirect from Mimas (Saturn))
    gap between Saturn's two widest rings, the A Ring and B Ring. Particles in the Huygens Gap at the inner edge of the Cassini division are in a 2:1 orbital...
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  • made significant contributions to the study of Saturn's rings, mostly using ground-based observations in the era before space exploration reached the outer...
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    material within the disk, similar to those observed within Saturn's A ring. Subsatellite "Rhea's Rings". NASA. 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2009-10-07. Jones, Geraint...
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  • Saturnian system, where Dorrance tries to lose them in Saturn's rings, but his ship is destroyed by a ring fragment. A Sirian ship then contacts Starr and...
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    Daphnis (moon) (redirect from Saturn XXXV)
    the largest moons of Saturn are named. Both Daphnis and Pan, the only other known shepherd moon to orbit within Saturn's main rings, are named for mythological...
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    Pan (moon) (redirect from Saturn XVIII)
    of Saturn. It is a small, ravioli-shaped moon approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan...
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    Methone (moon) (redirect from Saturn XXXII)
    natural satellite of Saturn that orbits out past Saturn's ring system, between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus. It was discovered in 2004, though it wasn't...
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  • Chrysalis (hypothetical moon) (category Moons of Saturn)
    swallowed by Saturn, with the remaining 1% forming the rings of Saturn. The origin of Saturn's rings from the destruction of a satellite has been previously...
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    Dutton) Keeler. He had married in 1891 and left a widow and two children. Keeler was the first to observe the gap in Saturn's rings now known as the Encke Gap...
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    radiation belts. Saturn's magnetosphere is often divided into four regions. The innermost region co-located with Saturn's planetary rings, inside approximately...
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  • of Saturn's Rings is a science-fiction novel by Donald A. Wollheim and was first published in the United States by the John C. Winston Company in 1954...
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  • forcing by the spiral arms themselves) and in Saturn's rings (where ring particles are subject to forcing by Saturn's moons). Lindblad resonances affect stars...
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    Bleriot (moonlet) (category Moons of Saturn)
    (2018-12-12). "Hydrodynamic Simulations of Moonlet-induced Propellers in Saturn's Rings: Application to Blériot". The Astronomical Journal. 157 (1): 6. arXiv:1701...
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    Carolyn Porco (redirect from Lady Saturn)
    'co-orbitals') and Pallene; a diffuse ring between Atlas and the F ring; and new rings within several of the gaps in Saturn's rings. In 2013, Cassini data confirmed...
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    Janus (moon) (redirect from Saturn X)
    nomenclature JPL/NASA: Moon-Made Rings. JPL/NASA: Creating New Rings. Fountain, J. W.; Larson, S. M. (1978). "Saturn's ring and nearby faint satellites"....
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    division in Saturn's rings. The genus Cassinia was named in his honour by the botanist Robert Brown. He named many flowering plants and new genera in the sunflower...
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    period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior. The hexagon does not shift in longitude like other clouds in the visible atmosphere. Saturn's hexagon...
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    during the late 1960s and early 70s that aimed to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Saturn's moon, Titan, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The mission originated from...
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