Earth had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago, new study …
WEB2 days ago · Here’s how it works. Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely ...
Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once | TIME
WEB1 day ago · But the ring could not last: both the pull of gravity and the drag of Earth’s exosphere, which extends more than 6,000 miles into space, would eventually pull the rubble down to the surface ...
Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggests
WEB3 days ago · An artist's impression of Earth and its ancient asteroid ring.(Image credit: Oliver Hull) Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could ...
Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence …
WEBThe team, whose research was published online last week in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, suggests that almost half a billion years ago, Earth may have had a ring, just like Saturn.
Earth once had rings like Saturn, new study suggests - Chron
WEB18 hours ago · Oliver Hull. Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 million years ago, a ring system made up of asteroid ...
Earth may have once had a ring like Saturn – and it caused chaos
WEB3 days ago · Saturn’s rings are iconic, but new evidence suggests Earth might once have sported one of its own. This ring would have caused chaos on the surface. We know Earth has gone through a lot of ...
The Earth Might Have Been a Ringed Planet Long Ago
WEB2 days ago · A new research paper by Andrew Tomkins and others in the journal Earth & Planetary Sciences makes the bold claim that Earth may have had a ring system in its past. Looking at the locations of crater, evidence in the sediment of oceans and some interesting climate coincidences, they say that starting around ~465 million years ago and lasting for 20-40 million years, a ring made from a destroyed ...
Earth May Have Had Rings Like Saturn 466 Million Years Ago
WEB2 days ago · The researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and 443.8 million years ago ...
What if Earth had rings? | Space
WEBSep 27, 2020 · Space and science-fiction illustrator Ron Miller created extraordinary images of how the sky might look if Earth possessed rings of the same proportions to our planet as Saturn's are to it.
Earth may once have had a planetary ring - The Economist
WEB1 day ago · Sep 18th 2024. C ould Earth once have had a planetary ring like the ones around Saturn? Scientists from Monash University in Australia think so. In a recent paper they identify 450m-year-old ...