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Researchers shed light on scientific phenomenon which helps to better understand evolution of interstellar dust and planetary rings in space

Haumea is a much larger object further out in the solar system, and together with the centaurs can help scientists learn more about planetary rings in general, writes Amanda A. Sickafoose, astronomer at MIT and the South African Astronomical Observatory, in a Nature commentary.

The scientists» findings could help to increase the understanding of the basic properties of granular gases such as soot agglomeration in flue gases on Earth or in astrophysical phenomena such as cosmic dust in planetary rings in space.

Not exact matches

said planetary scientist Jeff Cuzzi of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. «To me, this answers the question of what makes the rings red: It's organics.»

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age - old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

It is the first time a ring has been discovered around a trans - neptunian object, and it shows that the presence of rings could be much more common than was previously thought, in our Solar System as well as in other planetary systems.

To answer that last question in particular, «you have to fly between the planet and the rings,» says planetary scientist Matthew Hedman of the University of Idaho in Moscow, who uses Cassini data to study the rings.

One ring in particular owes its manicured appearance to no fewer than seven moons working together, according to new results released this week at the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Provo, Utah.

That's lightweight enough to be young, says planetary scientist Larry Esposito of the University of Colorado Boulder, a longtime old rings proponent who wasn't involved in the new work.

The paper «is a wonderful and gratifying confirmation of what we found several years back,» says planetary scientist and Cassini team member Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who worked on the earlier examination of the F ring.

Chancia and Hedman are well - versed in the physics of planetary rings: both study Saturn's rings using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn.

This spring, Buck Sharpton of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Houston reported evidence that the Chicxulub crater along the Yucatan coast has multiple rings and that its outer ring is nearly 300 kilometres across.

There's not enough pollution in the rings for them to have been around for a long time, argues planetary scientist Paul Estrada of the SETI Institute in Mountain View,

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

Not only that, but as the planet and its four planetary siblings orbit their host star, the whole system rotates in space due to tugs from a partner star, as if Saturn and its rings were turning on a spit.

The icy fragments would have encircled the solar system's second largest planet as rings and eventually spalled off small moons of their own that are still there today, says Robin Canup, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

«But a dirty secret of planetary rings should be exposed: following exhaustive searches since 2004 using the Cassini spacecraft, it is almost certain that none of the numerous gaps in Saturn's C ring and in its Cassini Division (low density band between Saturn's main A and B rings) harbour any shepherds of the requisite size.»

Though scientists are fairly certain the rings indicate that planets are beginning to form, the structure pictured defies the time line they would have predicted in the process of planetary formation.

In many cases, he applies dynamical methods to Saturn's rings and other planetary ring systems.

The planetary gearset is what's responsible for changing gear ratios, and it consists of a sun gear surrounded by smaller planet gears carried by a planet carrier enclosed in a ring gear.

While the sun gear spins, the planetary gears move around it, either around the ring gear or locked into it depending on the gear the transmission is in.

Issues that are cover in a certified pre-owned vehicle include, transmission / transaxle case and all internally lubricated parts including ring and pinion gears; oil pump, cover, gears, housing and vanes; torque converter; valve body (s); throttle valve; valve pack; governor, gear and cover; parking gear and pawl; roll pins; sprags; sprockets; chain; springs; stator and shaft; pressure regulator valve; pressure switches; solenoids; bands; automatic transmission / transaxle clutch, drums, pistons and steel plates; planetary and sun gears; servos and rings; blockers; synchronizer hubs and keys; bearings; blessings; supports and shafts; control rings; yoke; extension housing; speedometer drive gears; accumulators and rings; adjusters; all internal fasteners, nuts and bolts; shift cover and forks; separate bell housing; transfer case and all internal parts contained within the transfer case; seals and gaskets.

As a result, components that would normally contribute to the greatest parasitic loss — driveshaft, ring / pinion, input clutch plates, servo - hydraulic pump assembly and planetary gear sets — are all stationary when the vehicle is in front - wheel drive.

It is a moonless night, dark and rare, and the heat is oppressive, the kind of heat where a deep breath leaves you unsatisfied, suspicious that there was nothing life - giving at all in what you've inhaled, and you are left air - hungry, wet at the pits, forehead greasy with sweat, wishing for the night to be over, for your daughters to exhaust their energy, to cool their dense, hot centers enough to sleep for one more night in this summer that seems to stretch into your future like a planetary ring full of debris, circling forever around something it can't escape.

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