The phrase "a rocky ring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a ring that is made up of rocks or has a rocky texture, often in a geological or astronomical context.
Example: "The planet was surrounded by a rocky ring that sparkled in the sunlight."
Alternatives: "a stony band" or "a mineral ring".
Galileo may be able to confirm the existence of a rocky ring close to the planet — a feature that has long been suspected.
Galileo may be able to confirm the existence of a rocky ring close to the planet a feature that has long been suspected.
There is also evidence of a rocky ring strung along Amalthea's orbit which may consist of collisional debris from that moon.
Most asteroids today lie in two reservoirs: they asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where Ceres, the closest dwarf planet to the Sun resides, and on the Kuiper Belt, a rocky ring of debris found farther away than Neptune, where Pluto, Makemake, Haumea and Eris (the other so-called dwarf planets) exist.
Unlike Saturn's bright rings, which are made almost entirely of ice particles, Mars's rocky ring will be dark and largely invisible from Earth, although the cloud of orbiting Phobos bits will at first be dense enough to cast a shadow on the Red Planet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researchers say.
Ceres is a very special little world: It's one of just five dwarf planets and it's also the largest member of the asteroid belt, the rocky ring of debris between Mars and Jupiter.
Rocky!" rang out as Frye exited the shower, followed by a version of the movie's theme song as he grabbed the gloves and smiled.
Barkin's intractable pluck kept her in the ring throughout a rocky introduction to theatre.
"We believe that the C ring has been continuously polluted by meteoroid bombardment since it first formed, and we think the middle C ring was further contaminated by an incoming Centaur, a rocky object torn apart by tides and ultimately broken into pieces and injected into the C ring," said Zhang, who grew up in Shanghai, China, and earned an undergraduate degree at Peking University.
And these days they have as compelling a ring for scores of artists forced by a rocky commercial climate to seek new settings for their work.
