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...

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...

The rings of Jupiter are a system of faint planetary rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those...

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...

The rings of Uranus are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The...

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...

2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

study. The Ordovician Period was the geologic period and system that the Earth was in when the rings are believed to have formed. The Ordovician spanned from...

free-floating planet or brown dwarf, with a massive circumplanetary disk or ring system. It was first detected by automated telescopes in 2007 when its disk...

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...

tenuous ring system consisting of three narrow, relatively dense bands within a particulate disk. This would be the first discovery of rings around a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

aromatic rings, also known as simple arenes or simple aromatics, are aromatic organic compounds that consist only of a conjugated planar ring system. Many...

computer security). Computer operating systems provide different levels of access to resources. A protection ring is one of two or more hierarchical levels...

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...

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...

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...

impacts may originate from a ring system that formed around Earth at the time. In 2008, the ICS erected a formal international system of subdivisions for the...

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...

A multi-ringed basin (also a multi-ring impact basin) is not a simple bowl-shaped crater, or a peak ring crater, but one containing multiple concentric...