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Chapter 18, Problem 6P
If Uranus’s epsilon ring is 50 km wide and the orbital velocity of Uranus is 6.8 km/s, how long should the occultation last that you expect to observe from Earth when the ring crosses in front of the star? (For the purposes of this problem, ignore the motion of Earth.)
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