Prediscovery Evidence Of Planetary Rings

W. I. McLaughlin. (1980), JBIS, 33, pp.287-294

Refcode: 1980.33.287

Abstract:

An unexpected aspect of space science has developed with the recent discoveries of particulate rings about Uranus and Jupiter. However, the general surprise elicited by the observations of these systems of rings does not imply an absence of prediscovery indicators; as with most major scientific finds there existed before the acts of discovery a body of evidence which pointed, though uncertainly, toward those events.