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For questions about rings and their effects on the world and its people.
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How to explain planetary rings pulsating?
Io and Jupiter have a very special relationship. Io is a volcanic moon, which ejects charged particles. Due to its relatively low gravity (~0.18g), the particles escape, but they get trapped by Jupite …
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Rings made out of water?
This is the phase diagram for water.
As you can see, it takes pressure for water to be a proper liquid. In a vacuum, it goes straight from solid to gas and vice-versa.
It would take approximately 0.6 …
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Can there be a moon within a planetary ring?
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Check the leftmost part of it.
Click for a bigger picture (this is the source).
And the source article as well.
Edit: HDE's answer also uses Saturn's moons f …
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Reality Check - Collision of a Moon prevented by turning it into a ring
Edit: it's been six years or so since I answered the question. To honor the votes I got so far I will leave my original answer below, I just want to say that I think a bit differently now.
A ring arou …