A ring system is a disc or ring, orbiting an astronomical object, that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component...

The rings of Saturn are the most extensive and complex ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging...

planet Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn...

2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object and...

dense portions of Saturn's main rings such as the C ring and the Cassini Division, but much of Neptune's ring system is quite faint and dusty, in some...

The rings of Uranus are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The...

2020s revealed that Chiron hosts rings, making it one of four minor planets and the only known comet to host a ring system. Chiron was discovered on 1 November...

member of a cycle (also called a ring system). A ring system that is a simple cycle is called a monocycle or simple ring, and one that is not a simple cycle...

tenuous ring system consisting of three narrow, relatively dense bands within a particulate disk. This would be the first discovery of rings around a...

Sun. All four giant planets have multiple moons and a ring system, although only Saturn's rings are easily observed from Earth. Jupiter and Saturn are...

The 3-ring release system is a parachute component that is widely used by sport skydivers and military freefall parachutists to attach the two risers...

An orbital ring is a concept of an artificial ring placed around a body and set rotating at such a rate that the apparent centrifugal force is large enough...

object with confirmed rings (with 2060 Chiron being the smallest) and the fifth ringed celestial object discovered in the Solar System, after the gas giants...

Five Ring System model in his book, The Air Campaign, contending that any complex system could be broken down into five concentric rings. Each ring—Leadership...

any planet in the solar system. This number does not include the many thousands of moonlets embedded within Saturn's dense rings, nor hundreds of possible...

Look up ring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ring may refer to: Ring (jewellery), a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry To...

fused rings: three six-member cyclohexane rings (rings A, B and C in the first illustration) and one five-member cyclopentane ring (the D ring). Steroids...

natural satellites (moons), although such systems may also consist of bodies such as circumplanetary disks, ring systems, moonlets, minor-planet moons and artificial...

announced that Rhea may have a tenuous ring system. This would mark the first discovery of rings around a moon. The rings' existence was inferred by observed...

moons deflect ring particles from their original orbits due to proximity or through orbital resonances. This can carve gaps in the ring system, such as the...

computer security). Computer operating systems provide different levels of access to resources. A protection ring is one of two or more hierarchical levels...

93-394542.6 is orbited by an object that is circled by a ring system much larger than Saturn's rings. However, the mass of the object is not known; it could...

The vortex ring state (VRS) is a dangerous aerodynamic condition that may arise in helicopter flight, when a vortex ring system engulfs the rotor, causing...

formation of the rings of Saturn. Although theoretical models indicated that the rings were likely to have formed early in the Solar System's history, data...

aromatic rings, also known as simple arenes or simple aromatics, are aromatic organic compounds that consist only of a conjugated planar ring system. Many...

be either a large gas giant planet or a brown dwarf, with an immense ring system. Subsequent observations have not successfully detected J1407b, suggesting...

eight-membered ring with four nitrogen heteroatoms and four boron heteroatoms. Heterocyclic rings systems that are formally derived by fusion with other rings, either...

other giant planets, Uranus has a ring system, a magnetosphere, and many natural satellites. The extremely dark ring system reflects only about 2% of the...

objects by size List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun Ring system Solar System models Portals:  Stars  Spaceflight  Outer space  Science...

per hour (1,100 miles per hour). The planet has a bright and extensive ring system composed mainly of ice particles, with a smaller amount of rocky debris...