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Can Jupiters gas affect its rings?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Jupiters' gases are confined to the planet by its massive gravity. The rocks and ice are trapped by the same gravity. The two do not interact. Some of the material in the rings falls out of orbit due to loss of forward momentum and fall into Jupiter. They are short lived and disintegrate.

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