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2006-11-18 06:08:47 · 7 answers · asked by bijpat121 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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Jupiter has 63 moons, Saturn 56, Uranus 27 and Neptune 13.

Saturn's ring system is best known and the most prominent. Though all four gas giants have rings. Though this is not well known.

I suspect you are working from old information. i.e. out-of-date totals of moons and rings that have since been surpassed by further discoveries. That makes it a bit of detective work as to which planet's historical record you have been reading.

SATURN

In 1980 Voyager 1 increased the number of known Saturnian moons from 11 to 19. With Atlas being Saturn XV to be discovered. There appear to be 12 major rings (but many minor ones) and two of those are of recent discovery so perhaps your sources have not caught up with the latest Huygens-Cassini flybys and Hubble telescope surveys,

NEPTUNE

has five, possibly six other rings and four ring arcs (incomplete rings) within the Adams ring. In order outwards:

Galle
uncertain
LeVerrier
Lassell
Arago
unnamed
Adams

Arcs in Adams Ring
Fraternité
Égalité
Liberté
Courage

In addition to its 13 moons, as of November 2006, there are five known Trojan asteroids of Neptune which have the same orbital period as the planet. They lie in the elongated, curved regions around the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points 60° ahead of and behind Neptune. These are 2001 QR322, 2004 UP10, 2005 TN53, 2005 TO74 and 2006 RJ103. But these are not moons: they rotate with the planet around the Sun.

URANUS

Five large moons (Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel and Miranda) were known in 1948. The flyby of the Voyager 2 space probe in January 1986 led to the discovery of a further 10 inner moons, bringing the total to 15. But 12 more have emerged since then.

Wikipedia lists 13 Uranian rings and NASA lists 10, but both state that two further rings were then found in 2005.

JUPITER

has too few rings to meet the description provided.

The main ring is made of dust from the satellites Adrastea and Metis.

Inside the main ring is a torus of faint particles known as the halo. The gas torus consists of ions generated by Io's vulcanism that contributes significantly to radiation levels in Jupiter's vicinity.

Two wide gossamer rings encircle the main ring, originating from Thebe and Amalthea.

Finally, there is a distant and very faint outer ring circling Jupiter backwards—retrograde of its spin. It is not known for sure where the material for this outer ring comes from, but it may be captured interplanetary dust.

CONCLUSON

As Jupiter has too few rings and Neptune too few moons, you must mean Uranus or Saturn,

I incline towards Uranus as its total of moons stopped at 15, and according to one account its total of rings stopped at 10 for a few years.

2006-11-18 08:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9 0

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There are no planets in our solar system with neither 10 rings or 15 moon. The planet you're looking for is not in our solar system, which will make it harder to find information about. [added]: Uranus has 27 known moons and 11 rings.

2016-04-09 01:47:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Saturn

2006-11-18 06:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0 1

Saturn.

2006-11-18 08:29:19 · answer #4 · answered by taotemu 3 · 0 1

There is no exact number of what you are refering to but Neptune and Uranus has similar number either rings or moons.

2006-11-18 06:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by CXfan 4 · 0 0

Once upon a month pluto

2006-11-18 06:19:41 · answer #6 · answered by M.R.Palaniappa 2 · 0 0

is it saturn

2006-11-18 06:16:42 · answer #7 · answered by girl z 2 · 0 1

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