Earth Might Have Had a Ring 466 Million Years Ago
WEB2 days ago · Sept. 20, 2024, 4:39 p.m. ET. If you were to look up from Earth some 466 million years ago, you might have seen a gleaming ring stretching across the sky, some scientists say. A study published ...
Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn
WEB2 days ago · Fall From Grace Earth may have had its own ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, lasting for tens of millions of years. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Earth ...
Earth had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago, new study …
WEB5 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
WEB5 days ago · The 23-degree tilt of the Earth’s axis would have caused the ring to present its surface to the sun, casting a shadow in the atmosphere and on the ground below and causing global temperatures to ...
Earth May Have Once Had a Ring That Slowly Fell From The Sky
WEB6 days ago · Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own. The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically speaking – just a few tens of millions of years. But that was long enough to have left a lasting impression on Earth's geological record, according to an analysis led by planetary scientist Andy Tomkins of Monash ...
Earth May Have Had Rings Like Saturn 466 Million Years Ago
WEB6 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 ...
Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn ... - Smithsonian Magazine
WEB4 days 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 once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggests
WEB6 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 system 466 million years ago
WEBSep 16, 2024 · 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, which formed around 466 million years ago, at the beginning a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician …
Study: Earth had planetary rings like Saturn 466 million years ago
WEB2 days ago · Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These rings could have formed around 466 million years ago, during a tumultuous era marked by intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This period was characterized by significant environmental changes ...
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