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