Jupiter's rings

...r.edu it says that Saturn's rings are made out of mostly ice and rock pieces. I don't know how that could be possible because I don't think it would be cold enough because if Pluto doesn't have rings I don't thin that Saturn would have them, so i think that site isn't right. But according to the Astronomy Department of the University of Massachusetts (www.pegasus.phast.umass.edu) it says that the rings are made up of a huge number of small particles. These rings are formed by the gravitational attraction between the planet and the rings' small particles and how they compare with the planet's ring particles' gravitational attraction to each other. From www.antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov they also agree that the planets' rings are made up of rocks and ice but t...

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