Darren New wrote:
> 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.

Except that, AFAIK, Saturn's rings aren't solid. They're composed of rubble.

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