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THE recent direct observation by the Voyager spacecraft of a ring around Jupiter1 makes a comparison between the jovian ring and the rings of Saturn and Uranus possible, and leads to certain conclusions about their origins which are reported here.
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SMOLUCHOWSKI, R. The ring systems of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Nature 280, 377–378 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280377a0
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