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SOLAR SYSTEM
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Rocks and Dust
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Rock, Frozen gases, Ice crystals, and water
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Ice Crystals
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Stars
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Detailed explanation-1: -Saturn’s rings are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids, or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn’s powerful gravity. They are made of billions of small chunks of ice and rock coated with other materials such as dust.
Detailed explanation-2: -Saturn’s rings are mostly chunks of water ice ranging in size from microscopic dust grains to boulders several yards (meters) across.
Detailed explanation-3: -Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. Its beautiful rings are made mostly of water ice crystals, with some dust and other impurities mixed in. The particles range from tiny specks of dust to huge boulder-sized chunks and a few even larger. Image from Voyager 1 spacecraft.