Darren New wrote:
> The rings of Saturn are 73,000,000 meters from closest to farthest from 
> Saturn. That is, about 20,000,000,000,000,000 square meters of surface 
> area, or roughly 400 times the surface area of the earth.
> 
> The rings of Saturn are five to fifteen meters thick. Not kilometers. 
> Meters. Like, "here, bring me that ladder..."

Or, roughly, if I did the math right, if saturn's rings were "paper 
thin", the piece of paper you cut the rings from would be 1600 meters on 
a side, or roughly a mile across.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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