Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn ... - Smithsonian Magazine
WEB17 hours ago · The 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 had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago, new study …
WEB2 days ago · The researchers estimate that the ring-spawning asteroid would be about 7.7 miles (12.5 kilometers) wide if it were a "rubble pile," or slightly smaller if it were a solid body.Once it shattered ...
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 ...
Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once - TIME
WEB1 day ago · The moon and the planets and the stars and the sun would have looked pretty much the same as they do today. ... Before that happened, however, the ring would have a profound effect on the climate ...
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 a ring system 466 million years ago - Phys.org
WEB3 days ago · DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118991. In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system that ...
Earth Had Rings Like Saturn Millions of Years Ago, Study …
WEB2 days ago · In a new study, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, they analyzed almost 500-million-year-old meteorite impact craters from around the world. They concluded that it was ...
Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn | New Scientist
WEB3 days ago · The team propose that an asteroid, perhaps over 12 kilometres in diameter, passed so close to Earth that it was torn apart by the planet’s gravitational pull, creating a ring of debris.
Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Abstract. All large planets in our Solar System have rings, and it has been suggested that Mars may have had a ring in the past. This raises the question of whether Earth also had a ring in the past. Here, we examine the paleolatitudes of 21 asteroid impact craters from an anomalous ∼40 m.y. period of …
Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring – like Saturn
WEB4 days ago · The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science ...
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