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CREPE RINGThe Crêpe ring (also called the C ring) is the inner ring of Saturn's three major rings; it is smaller and less visible than the A and B rings. It is visible using a small telescope.
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system appears to consist mainly of two bright outer rings, denoted A and B, separated by a dark rift—discovered by the Italian-French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini—known as Cassini's division, plus a third, faint inner crepe ring ...
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There are two main sections (called rings A and B) plus the smaller ring (Ring C or the Crepe ring), D and F rings; the larger gap in the rings is called the division; the smaller one is the Encke division.
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The outermost ring is ring A, then comes Cassini's division, then ring B (also called the bright ring), then Lyot's division, then ring C (the crepe ring), then ring D (discovered in 1969).
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Galle -- Johann Gottfried Galle (1812-1910) German astronomer who discovered the crepe ring of Saturn (1838) and was a co-discoverer of Neptune (1846).
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This ring was intially known as the crepe ring, and later officially became the C Ring. George Bond concludes that a system of narrow solid rings could not be stable and that Saturn's rings had to be fluid.
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The brightest part is in the middle, called the B ring. Outside is the A ring, and between them is a gap called Cassini's Division, the width of the Atlantic Ocean. Closest to the planet is the faintest ring of all, called the C ring or crepe ring.
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this image of Saturn's rings, the C Ring isthe faint ring below the two brighter ones]]The C Ring is a wide but faint ring located inward of the B Ring, and was discovered in 1850 by William and George Bond when it was termed the ' Crepe Ring' because ...
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 See also: Saturn, Earth, Telescope, Moon, Rings
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