ring-system

Designer of the universe, in permitting its existence, had been willing to impart to His intelligent creatures the manner in which celestial bodies are evolved, and that this remarkable ring-system is a remnant of the nebula from which Saturn was himself developed, and which, from some unknown cause, has become solidified.

Off on a Comet 2003

He analyzed with great sapience the psychological effect on the audience of Mr. Dundee's ring-system of perpetual motion.

The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

Of what matter it is composed, and how it resists disintegration, is still an unsettled question; but it might almost seem that the Designer of the universe, in permitting its existence, had been willing to impart to His intelligent creatures the manner in which celestial bodies are evolved, and that this remarkable ring-system is a remnant of the nebula from which Saturn was himself developed, and which, from some unknown cause, has become solidified.

Off on a Comet 1877

The limit of possible existence for such a mass was fixed by Roche of Montpellier, in 1848, [1116] at 2·44 mean radii of its primary; while the outer edge of the ring-system is distant 2·38 radii of Saturn from his centre.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

Of what matter it is composed, and how it resists disintegration, is still an unsettled question; but it might almost seem that the Designer of the universe, in permitting its existence, had been willing to impart to His intelligent creatures the manner in which celestial bodies are evolved, and that this remarkable ring-system is a remnant of the nebula from which Saturn was himself developed, and which, from some unknown cause, has become solidified.

Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Jules Verne 1866

This circumstance clearly suggests that the darkness of these parts is due to the background, or, in other words, that the sky is in reality seen through those parts of the ring-system, just as the darkness of the slate-coloured interior ring is attributed, on the satellite theory, to the background of sky visible through the scattered flight of satellites forming the dark ring.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

This weight would be enormous if Bessel's estimate of the mass of the ring-system is correct.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

It would be necessary then that the ring-system should rotate around the planet.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

In September 1848 the ring had been turned edgewise towards the sun, and as rather more than seven years are occupied in the apparent gradual opening out of the ring from that edge view to its most open appearance (when the outline of the ring-system is an eclipse whose lesser axis is nearly equal to half the greater), it will be seen that in November 1850 the rings were but slightly opened.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

Why should the ring-system, 30,000 miles in width, be thus divided into zones of different material?

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862