• Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, a planet that’s just like Earth but with a ring system would be dope af

    Though maybe it’s impossible to have rings and a cool bigass moon because gravity or something? Physicists, help a homie out.

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      7 months ago

      Not a scientist but I imagine 1 moon or more would more or less attract all the matter that would otherwise become a ring?

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        7 months ago

        Saturn has 146 moons and the largest, Titan, is 50% larger than ours, but also farther away from the planet.

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            7 months ago

            Saturn’s rings are quite temporary on the time scale that planets exist at. They might only have been formed in a collision between moons 100 million years ago, and will most likely disappear in some 100 million years. This is a very brief period compared to the age of the planet.

            So rings are likely quite an unstable formation either way.