Why do Saturn’s rings appear perfect, without blemish or irregularity, if they are composed of particles that range from as large as a house next to grains of sand?

George Thomas Holtsnider

Bremerton, Washington

Saturn’s rings are a very orderly system. In panoramic images, they appear to be a generally flat disk with concentric structures. And yet the number of particles within the rings is similar to the number of grains of sand on Earth, each one on its own orbit around Satur

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