AaS! 50: What's up with Saturn's rings?

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

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🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How (and when) did the rings of Saturn form? How are we to understand the complex systems of rings and gaps? How do the moons influence their shape? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session and Cathy Rinella for editing.

Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars (http://www.pmsutter.com).

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0:00.0	You know what time it is.
0:08.9	It's time for Ask a Space Man.
0:10.5	I'm your host, Paul Sutter.
0:11.5	You've got questions and I've got answers.
0:14.0	You know how this show works, but let's ring around another time.
0:18.5	You go online to Twitter, Facebook.
0:20.3	Use the hashtag Ask a Space Man.
0:22.4	Send me your questions and I will attempt. I'll do my best to answer them. You can also follow
0:27.5	me on Twitter and Facebook. My handle is at Paul Matt Sutter. You can also Ask a Spaceman
0:32.4	at Gmail.com. Also visit the YouTube page, YouTube.com slash C slash Paul Matt Sutter.
0:38.5	That channel, by the way, doesn't have just videos of me answering science questions.
0:43.4	There's a lot of other cool content that I think you should check out.
0:47.0	We have a very simple goal with this show.
0:50.0	Complete knowledge of time and space.
0:52.0	And on the road to complete knowledge of time and space, we're going to visit Iceland.
0:55.8	That's right.
0:56.1	We're going on an astro tour to hunt Aurora.
1:00.0	Go to astrotoring.com to check out the trip.
1:03.4	It's going to be really, really fun.
1:04.9	And we're going to have fun and do science together, okay?
1:07.3	Now, on the road, the real road, to complete knowledge of time and space,
1:11.8	we have a question from Jamal in email asking, uh, what's up with Saturn's rings?
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