What are the names of Saturns rings in order?
Disappointingly, the rings of Saturn don’t bear exotic, romantic, or even difficult-to-pronounce scientific names. After some deep-web exploration, we learned that the rings are simply referred to by letters of the alphabet. Saturn’s rings were first noted in 1610 by Galileo. They were named in the order of their discovery and hence do not appear in alphabetical order. Working outward from the planet, the rings are: D, C, B, A, F, G, E. The large division between rings B and A is called the Cassini Division after the astronomer who discovered both the gap and four of Saturn’s moons. D, C, B, and A are the major ring groups; F, G, and E are fainter, narrower rings. The rings are composed primarily of particles of water ice, ranging in size from a fraction of a millimeter in
