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Aren't Saturn's rings hypothesised to have come about from moons smashing or disintegrating?
by askvictor 9y ago
Aren't Saturn's rings hypothesised to have come about from moons smashing or disintegrating?
- neuroid 9y agoThere is another theory suggesting otherwise [1]: Saturn’s mid-sized moons are like the monsters in late-night horror movies. Smash them into tiny pieces, and they glue themselves back together as new versions of the old moons. This new finding contradicts a theory that Saturn’s rings were caused by moons colliding. [1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132906-saturns-moons-could-reassemble-after-a-cosmic-smash-up/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132906-saturns-moons-c...