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• Rings of Saturn — The full set of main rings, imaged as Saturn eclipsed the Sun from the vantage of the Cassini spacecraft on 15 September 2006 (brightness is exaggerated). The pale blue dot at the 10 o clock position, outside the main rings and just inside the G… …   Wikipedia

• Planetary ring — Shepherd moon redirects here. For the Enya album, see Shepherd Moons. The moons Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the F ring of Saturn. A planetary ring is a ring of cosmic dust and other small particles orbiting around a planet in a flat disc… …   Wikipedia

• Rings of Jupiter — A schema of Jupiter s ring system showing the four main components The planet Jupiter has a system of rings, known as the rings of Jupiter or the Jovian ring system. It was the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those… …   Wikipedia

• Rings of Neptune — The scheme of Neptune s ring moon system. Solid lines denote rings; dashed lines denote orbits of moons. The rings of Neptune consist primarily of five principal rings predicted in 1984 by André Brahic and imaged in 1989 by the Voyager 2… …   Wikipedia

• Rings of Uranus — The scheme of Uranus s ring moon system. Solid lines denote rings; dashed lines denote orbits of moons. The planet Uranus has a system of rings intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around …   Wikipedia

• Planetary nomenclature — Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed. The task of assigning… …   Wikipedia

• Rings of Rhea — The Saturnian moon Rhea may have a tenuous ring system consisting of three narrow, relatively dense bands within a particulate disk. This would be the first discovery of rings around a moon. The discovery was announced in the journal Science on… …   Wikipedia

• Planetary Data System — The Planetary Data System (PDS) is a distributed data system that NASA uses to archive data collected by Solar System robotic missions and ground based support data associated with those missions. PDS is managed by NASA Headquarters Planetary… …   Wikipedia

• Planetary data for Saturn — ▪ Table Planetary data for Saturn mean distance from Sun 1,427,000,000 km (9.5 AU) eccentricity of orbit 0.054 inclination of orbit to ecliptic 2.5° Saturnian year (sidereal period of revolution) 29.44 Earth years visual magnitude at mean… …   Universalium

• Planetary mnemonic — A planetary mnemonic is a phrase used to remember the planets (and sometimes dwarf planets) of the Solar System with the order of the words corresponding to the increasing sidereal periods of the bodies. Contents 1 Nine planets 2 Eight Planets 3… …   Wikipedia

• Planetary data for Uranus — ▪ Table Planetary data for Uranus mean distance from Sun 2,870,990,000 km (19.2 AU) eccentricity of orbit 0.0461 inclination of orbit to ecliptic 0.774° Uranian year (sidereal period of revolution) 84.01 Earth years visual magnitude at mean… …   Universalium