Suppose that you found, somewhere in deep space, a planet that is pretty much like Saturn, i.e., it is a ball of gas together with a ring. The ball of gas is not still stood, it is moving along the ring's symmetry axis. If the maximum distance between the center of mass of the ball and the center of the ring is much smaller than the ring's radius, what is the period of the ball's movement?
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