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Originally posted by Schmidt1989
I was thinking, our moon controls our earth, without it, the planet wouldnt be the same, obviously. And I kinda assume that Saturn's rings control the way that planet works, too, right?
Originally posted by Schmidt1989
Despite it being gas anyhow, maybe it only controls the gas, the solid core, or both, whatever, but it has to have some effect.
Originally posted by Schmidt1989
So wondering, what would happen if a bunch of stuff, over time, fell into orbit around earth? We fire up satellites and drop them into orbit, but theres only a limited number of them, so what if earth had enough crap up there, man-made or not, to develop its own ring system? Can anything natural fall into orbit without actually hitting earth?
Originally posted by Schmidt1989
timelike,
Fantastic post! Major help, I had never heard of the Roche limit.
Originally posted by Schmidt1989
Hypothetically speaking, if we had somehow obtained a ring system, how would the ring system affect the earth's surface?
Originally posted by Schmidt1989
Could we have a ring system like Neptune, where the rings are vertical, but keep our moon circling us vertically? Or would the rings have to follow the moon? (ignoring the fact that the moon would collide with anything in the rings.)