Earth Might Have Had a Ring 466 Million Years Ago
WEB15 hours 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 ...
Earth May Have Had Rings Like Saturn, Scientists Say - Forbes
WEB2 days ago · Ring Shadow. The debris ring may also have cast a shadow on Earth, which has implications for the planet's climate. The ice age at the end of the Ordovician period is considered one of the coldest ...
Earth had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago, new study …
WEB3 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 May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once | TIME
WEB2 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 ...
Saturn-like ring may have once encircled Earth, study finds - Yahoo
WEB15 hours ago · Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the Earth may have once had a system of Saturn-like rings.The rings are theorized to have formed 466 million years ago during one of the coldest ...
Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn ... - Smithsonian Magazine
WEB1 day 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 May Have Once Had a Saturn-Like Ring, New Study Says
WEB2 days ago · While Saturn's rings are the best known, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings. And now, a new study published in the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters seems to show ...
Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggests
WEB4 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 - Phys.org
WEB4 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 May Have Had Rings Like Saturn 466 Million Years Ago
WEB3 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 ...