TITLE:
Discovery of the Nature of Separation of Ice Bodies of the Visible Dense Rings of Saturn, Predicted by J. C. Maxwell in 1856, and How It Helps Solve Unsolved Problems of Purely Gravitational Models of Their Origin
AUTHORS:
Vladimir V. Tchernyi, Sergey V. Kapranov
KEYWORDS:
Saturn’s Visible Dense Rings, Origin of Saturn’s Visible Dense Rings, Diamagnetism of Ice in Space, Saturn’s Magnetism
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.12 No.12,
December
31,
2024
ABSTRACT: Cassini measurements suggest that ice bodies of Saturn’s visible dense rings have diamagnetic properties. Recently, JWST confirmed the existence of water around forming planets and showed that the magnetic field plays an important role in the formation of planets. It follows that Saturn’s visible dense rings could arise from the ice bodies of a protoplanetary cloud the radius of the Roche limit under the mutual action of a diamagnetic expulsion force created by Saturn’s magnetic field, together with the action of Saturn’s gravitational and centrifugal forces. As a result, the Kepler’s orbits of the ice bodies of the protoplanetary cloud move into the plane of Saturn’s equator and origin highly compressed stable system of the visible dense rings with separate individual ice bodies. With the same orientation of magnetic moment of ice bodies, their repulsion and separation occur due to their magnetization by Saturn’s magnetic field. Ice bodies are also attracted to each other due to their own gravity. At the balance of the both forces, the ice bodies remain at an equilibrium distance between them. This provides important evidence of the nature of J. C. Maxwell’s discovery in 1856 that the visible dense rings of Saturn are not continuous, but composed of individual bodies. This theory can provide an explanation of the origin of Saturn’s visible dense rings and their structure observed by Cassini probe in 2004-2017. It could also improve purely gravitational models of the origin of Saturn’s visible dense rings, which can only show how additional ice could penetrate the visible dense rings, and cannot explain convincingly their origin and structure.