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Sanduleak

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Planetary rings
« on: May 06, 2010, 03:04:49 pm »
I'm exploring US rendering of planetary rings. Here I will post whatever findings that might be of interest to the community.

Beginning with this nice couple of screenshots: US is such a good value for money, every household should get a copy  :)
(No, Dan has not paid me to say this!  :D   )
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Naru523

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Re: Planetary rings
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 03:29:04 pm »
Awesome.

Do you have a supercomputer or something? My cp can't keep up with that lol.
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Sanduleak

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Re: Planetary rings
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2010, 04:30:09 am »

This is how a ring is split in two rings by the effect of a shepherd moon.
For this to work the radius of the hill sphere has to be smaller than the ring itself, and the moon's orbit must be retrograde.
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Re: Planetary rings
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2010, 08:18:58 am »
Lol... it is like Saturn all over again.
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Re: Planetary rings
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2010, 09:44:17 am »
And Uranus, and Neptune, and Jupiter.  ::) :P
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