Re: Thickness of Saturn's rings


"Nightshift" <cloudwatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Has the Cassini probe led to an accurate figure for thickness of Saturn's
rings yet? The estimates vary widely even in relatively modern textbooks.
I've heard that they may be only 30 feet in maximum thickness. Hard to
believe that something so thin can be seen right across the solar system.


http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/saturn.cfm#q4
How thick are the main rings?


They're extremely thin compared to their breadth, no more than 100 meters
(about 300 feet) thick. To get an idea of their proportions, imagine a ring
as thin as a sheet of paper and about 3 km (2 miles) in diameter.




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