Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once
I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...
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Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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Earth Might Have Had a Ring System Like Saturn Millions of Years Ago
In a surprising twist on our planet’s ancient history, scientists are now suggesting that Earth might once have had a ring ...
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Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggests
Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...
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Earth May Once Have Had A Ring Like Saturn
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
Earth may have once had a Saturn-like ring system, new evidence suggests
To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...