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Theoretical investigations of Saturn’s rings (structure, composition, and stability) have a long history which abounds both in great names (Laplace, Maxwell, and others) and important results. However, it can be stated that the recent flights of Voyager I and II spacecrafts which transmitted to Earth the pictures of Saturn’s rings (made from such small distances as several million kilometers and even less) have opened a new era in studying this (to use Maxwell’s words) “great space arch.” The rings revealed, quite unexpectedly, a much more complicated and interesting structure than had at first been thought. Particularly, they are actually divided into a huge number (thousands) of narrow concentric ringlets.1
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Fridman, A.M., Polyachenko, V.L. (1984). Other Applications. In: Physics of Gravitating Systems II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87833-6_7
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