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stration that the rings must be composed
of meteoritic matter like gravel. Even so,
there must be collisions absorbing the en-
ergy of rotation, and tending to make the
rings eventually fall into the planet. The
slower motion of the external parts has been
proved by the spectroscope in Keeler’s hands,
1895.
Saturn has perhaps received more than
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