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Saturn's Rings (Edge View)

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Saturn's Rings (Edge View)

282,000 km wide but thinner than a razor blade in proportion/Deep Space

Saturn's rings span about 282,000 km in diameter but are only about 10-30 meters thick in most places. If you scaled the rings down to the diameter of a football field, they would be about 10,000 times thinner than a razor blade. They are composed of billions of particles ranging from dust grains to house-sized boulders, all made mostly of water ice. The rings may be only 100-400 million years old, making them younger than the dinosaurs.

Measurements

Outer diameter (main rings)282 million m
15.4 millionBowling lane lengths
979 quadrillionGold atoms
188 millionBlue whale hearts

282,000 km

Typical thickness20 m
233Credit card lengths
100Burrito lengths
13.6Danny DeVitos

10-30 meters

Total ring mass15.4 quintillion kg
1.9 quintillionRaccoons
237 quadrillionCouches

About 40% of Mimas

Total ring area62 quadrillion m^2
1 billionManhattans
6.4 quintillionIndex cards

About 62 billion km^2

Inner ring orbital speed23,600 m/s
9,440Jogging humans
786,667Marching ants

About 85,000 km/h

Estimated age6.3 quadrillion s
30 trillionPop songs
219 billionWorkdays

About 200 million years

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