ring-girdle

Updated: May 14, 2025

Here, however, in the case of Saturn's ring, was a quoit-shaped body travelling around the sun in continual attendance upon Saturn, whose motions, no matter how they varied in velocity or direction, were so closely followed by this strange attendant that the planet remained always centrally poised within the span of its ring-girdle.

Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor - Myths and Marvels of Astronomy