actually made tutorial on this other week, though I used a specially made "base" object, a partial ring, to let me make a specific look of an asteroid ring around a planet
you cna use a terrain instead as the base object, stretched out suitably for camera ;)

http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/37.html

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