A ring system is a disc or torus orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as gas, dust, meteoroids, planetoids or moonlets...
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The rings of Saturn are the most extensive and complex ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging...
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planet Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn...
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The 3-ring release system is a parachute component that is widely used by sport skydivers and military freefall parachutists to attach the two risers...
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2060 Chiron (redirect from Chiron’s ring system)
2060 Chiron is a ringed small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal...
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The rings of Uranus are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The...
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dense portions of Saturn's main rings such as the C ring and the Cassini Division, but much of Neptune's ring system is quite faint and dusty, in some...
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Haumea (redirect from Haumean ring system)
2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object and...
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member of a cycle (also called a ring system). A ring system that is a simple cycle is called a monocycle or simple ring, and one that is not a simple cycle...
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Sun. All four giant planets have multiple moons and a ring system, although only Saturn's rings are easily observed from Earth. Jupiter and Saturn are...
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Look up ring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ring may refer to: Ring (jewellery), a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry To...
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System Management Mode (SMM, sometimes called ring −2 in reference to protection rings) is an operating mode of x86 central processor units (CPUs) in which...
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An orbital ring is a concept of an artificial ring placed around a body and set rotating at such a rate that the apparent centrifugal force is large enough...
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Five Ring System model in his book, The Air Campaign, contending that any complex system could be broken down into five concentric rings. Each ring—leadership...
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The vortex ring state (VRS) is a dangerous aerodynamic condition that may arise in helicopter flight, when a vortex ring system engulfs the rotor, causing...
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tenuous ring system consisting of three narrow, relatively dense bands within a particulate disk. This would be the first discovery of rings around a...
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Moons of Saturn (redirect from Saturnian system)
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 possible...
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Steroid (section Intact ring system)
fused rings: three six-member cyclohexane rings (rings A, B and C in the first illustration) and one five-member cyclopentane ring (the D ring). Steroids...
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computer security). Computer operating systems provide different levels of access to resources. A protection ring is one of two or more hierarchical levels...
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Shepherd moon (redirect from Ring shepherd)
moons deflect ring particles from their original orbits due to proximity or through orbital resonances. This can carve gaps in the ring system, such as the...
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formation of the rings of Saturn. Although theoretical models indicated that the rings were likely to have formed early in the Solar System's history, data...
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natural satellites (moons), although such systems may also consist of bodies such as circumplanetary disks, ring systems, moonlets, minor-planet moons and artificial...
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G Ring may refer to: Rings of Saturn § G Ring, a planetary ring system around Saturn. G-ring or Grothendieck ring, a type of commutative ring in algebra...
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aromatic rings, also known as simple arenes or simple aromatics, are aromatic organic compounds that consist only of a conjugated planar ring system. Many...
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The rings may be secured by lever arch mechanisms or other securing systems. The binders themselves are typically made from plastic with metal rings. Early...
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Rhea (moon) (section Possible ring system)
announced that Rhea may have a weak ring system. This would mark the first discovery of rings around a moon. The rings' existence was inferred by observed...
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Uranus (category Solar System)
other giant planets, Uranus has a ring system, a magnetosphere, and many natural satellites. The extremely dark ring system reflects only about 2% of the...
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Neptune (category Solar System)
approximately 5,400 K (5,100 °C; 9,300 °F). Neptune has a faint and fragmented ring system (labelled "arcs"), discovered in 1984 and confirmed by Voyager 2. Some...
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object with confirmed rings (with 2060 Chiron being the smallest) and the fifth ringed celestial object discovered in the Solar System, after the gas giants...
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Exoplanet (redirect from Estrasolar system)
93-394542.6 was occulted by an object that is circled by a ring system much larger than Saturn's rings. However, the mass of the object is not known; it could...
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