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Old October 21st 18, 11:48 PM posted to alt.astronomy
Mark Earnest[_2_]
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Default Why Does Saturn Have Thin Beautiful Rings?

On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 2:55:13 PM UTC-5, casagi... wrote:
Only stable way is to have many small particles in a common orbital
plane. If there were some in different planes, then there'd be
collisions.


Yes but what holds the asteroids in one thin circle around Saturn?