Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Rings of Saturn will disappear today.

The ring of Saturn is almost completely water and ice with some dust or chemicals. The ring is 170,000 miles wide. The ring holds 35 trillion-trillion tons of dust rocks and ice. The reason that the ring is visible and shiny is because it reflects the sun, but every 15 years the ring turn reflecting no sun. Saturn’s ring is bit of a mystery because scientists don’t know how it formed. Saturn has an orbit of 29.7 years but we have 365 days. The famous predictor Galileo Galilei was the first man to discover the change of Saturn’s ring in 17th century, through one of his telescopes made by himself. He didn’t know what they were sand he couldn’t see closely enough so he thought that Saturn had two big ears. Then after studying it for 2 years he says it disappear and dint know what to say. There are still some thing for us to still learn about Saturn’s ring.

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