The Major Gaps in the Rings of Saturn Are MOST

question 140

Multiple Choice

The major gaps in the rings of Saturn are MOST likely to be caused by:

• A) beams of charged particles, similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, in Saturn's magnetosphere that clear out this region.
• B) mutual gravitational interactions between the multitude of particles in the rings.
• C) the intervention of a massive body that moved through the rings in their early history, leaving the gaps.
• D) combined gravitational forces from Saturn and its moons that deflect the paths of particles that stray into the gaps.

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