WHY DON'T SATURN PULLS THE RING INTO IT THAT ARE REVOLVING AROUND IT!?
I MEAN SATURN HAS Gravitational force so why don't it pull the rings made of ice,dust , asteroid towards in it... as why they keep on revolving towards it??
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Answers
as we known the mass of the Saturn is less than as compare to our Earth...
and the ice, dust asteroid which are in the ring if the Saturn that is loosing the orbit of the Saturn and nasa said in future Saturn lose their ring.
no one knew why the planet's gravity did not pull them crashing down to its surface.One is the force of gravity, which mighty Saturn exerts on its rings and outward to the farthest of its ten satellite moons...
Explanation:
The short answer is that the ring particles are in orbit, just like Saturn's moons are. The long answer follows:
Let's start a bit closer to home, with the Earth. At the altitude of the International Space Station, about 400km (give or take, it varies over time), the station and the astronauts are experiencing about 90% of Earth's gravitational pull relative to what they would feel on the surface. But one of the first things you learn about space is that the astronauts are weightless, and float around effortlessly! So what gives?
Let's use a famous thought experiment: Newton's cannonball. Imagine you have a very tall mountain on an otherwise completely spherical and featureless Earth. On top of this mountain, you have a cannon pointed exactly horizontally (parallel to the Earth's surface). As our natural intuition would tell us, the cannonball travels horizontally for a while, but eventually falls to the ground.
So bump up the speed, and make your cannonball go faster. It goes farther- but still eventually falls down. If you go really fast, you'll travel far beyond the horizon, and the Earth's curvature will start to come into play: you'd go farther than you would expect to go if the Earth was totally flat.
If you take this to a logical conclusion, you then deduce that you could fire the cannonball at such a speed as to balance out the rate at which the cannonball is falling with the rate at which the Earth is curving away from the cannonball. The cannonball would make a complete circuit of the Earth (until it hit you in the back of the head). This is what an orbit is- you are traveling sideways so fast that even though you are falling, the planet is curving away from you before you hit it. At the altitude of the International Space Station, this is roughly 7.5 kilometers per second. And since they're falling forever, they experience weightlessness.
Saturn's rings are made of untold numbers of icy particles that are all in orbit around Saturn. Because the speed you need to be in an orbit varies with how close you are to the planet (speed is proportional to 1/distance squared, so if you're twice as far away you only need to go a quarter of the speed), the inner ring particles are moving faster than the outer ones. But if you stopped all of those ring particles in their tracks relative to Saturn, they'd all fall in just like you expect.
As for how the rings are created, the concept here is tidal forces and the Roche limit. Because the gravity varies depending on how close you are to the planet, a moon in very close orbit would then have significantly different amounts of gravity pulling on different parts of the moon. Get close enough, and this difference in forces can tear the moon apart.