They shouldn't have been. Jupiter's rings were reported in Sky & Telescope in the 50s.
RightWhale said: They shouldn't have been. Jupiter's rings were reported in Sky & Telescope in the 50s.
"The ring around Jupiter, discovered by the Voyager I spacecraft in 1979, is a thin, tenuous, almost invisible band of smokelike dust...Jupiter's ring, wherever it comes from has to be replenished regularly. The dust particles of the ring are so small (millionths of an inch) that radiation effects and the planet's magnetic field cause them to spiral down into the planet very quickly." Science 83, 3/83, p. 112. ("Mysteries: Why Do Planets Have Rings?") Are you sure you know the difference between Jupiter and Ur-
anus?