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Old October 21st 18, 11:59 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default Why Does Saturn Have Thin Beautiful Rings?

On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 3:48:34 PM UTC-7, Mark Earnest wrote:
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?



The perfection of the quintessence.

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