Uranus: Rings

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5384e&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5384. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Planets And Satellites

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The Uranian ring system comprise ten narrow rings, one diffuse ring and some tenuous material between the narrow rings. With a mixed nomenclature arising from historical tradition, the names of the ten narrow rings (in order of increasing distance from the planet) are 6, 5, 4, α, β, η, γ, δ, λ, ɛ; the name of the diffuse ring is 1986U1R. The innermost narrow ring lies about 16 000 km above the mi...

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