11th Uranus ring
NZPA-AFP Pasadena, California
The American outerspace probe, Voyager 2, has discovered an eleventh ring around the planet Uranus, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration says.
The small space vessel had photographed the ring on Saturday while 81,000 km from the planet and nearly three billion kilometres from Earth. A N.A.S.A. researcher, Jeff Cuzzi, said the photo showed “a diffuse sheet of material. I’d call it a ring.” It is inside the 10 rings already known and is 3000 km wide and 11,200 km above the planet’s “clouds.” It was the second ring discovered by Voyager. Voyager is the size of a big television set. It was launched in August, 1977. By yesterday it was 4.8 million km beyond Uranus, heading towards the planet Neptune at a speed of nearly 50,000 km/ h. Voyager will reach Neptune in August, 1989.
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Press, 31 January 1986, Page 8
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