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Pluto has Rings?
LivingNDixie
post Sep 25 2007, 02:29 PM
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There is an occulation on Sept 27 that someone thinks might prove that Pluto has rings.

http://occult.mit.edu/research/occultation...uto/P507-preds/
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post Sep 25 2007, 10:27 PM
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Pluto and Charon form a double-planet system, with the epicenter nearly outside of Pluto's surface. Is such a system gravitationally capable of maintaining a ring system for more than a few decades?

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- LivingNDixie   Pluto has Rings?   Sep 25 2007, 02:29 PM
- - ugordan   Wasn't there another recent Pluto occultation ...   Sep 25 2007, 02:31 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Well, the occultation can be used to search for ri...   Sep 25 2007, 02:33 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 25 2007, 02:33 P...   Sep 25 2007, 02:36 PM
- - ugordan   That I know. That's why I thought an (imaginar...   Sep 25 2007, 02:35 PM
- - tasp   Well, considering the effect of a very thin, but n...   Sep 25 2007, 03:46 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Quite right (of course) Alan - I was really intend...   Sep 25 2007, 06:01 PM
- - dvandorn   Pluto and Charon form a double-planet system, with...   Sep 25 2007, 10:27 PM
- - tasp   * If we are defining rings as material above the R...   Sep 26 2007, 01:37 AM
- - remcook   Isn't this similar? http://www.space.com/image...   Sep 26 2007, 08:47 AM
- - SigurRosFan   QUOTE Pluto has Rings? Yes, maybe ... - Hubble Co...   Sep 26 2007, 10:40 AM
|- - tasp   Quote, ---------- Astronomers believe that the for...   Sep 30 2007, 03:08 AM
- - PhilCo126   We'll probably have to wait until the " N...   Sep 29 2007, 06:26 PM

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