• Question: What are saturns rings made of?

    Asked by smileyluke8 to Colm, Eoin, Joseph, Lauren, Stephen on 13 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: colm bracken

      colm bracken answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      Hi smileyluke8,
      Saturn.’s rings are made from rocky material. Some pieces are tiny grains of dust while others are the size of trucks. There are some theories that the rings may be the left overs of a moon that got blown to pieces in a crash with another large object.

    • Photo: Stephen Scully

      Stephen Scully answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      They are made of objects in orbit, from the size of a bit of dust to really large rocks.

    • Photo: Joseph Roche

      Joseph Roche answered on 16 Nov 2013:

      It’s a good example of how something as boring as rocks and dust can be made to look beautiful 🙂

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