If the Earth had rings like Saturn's rings
Fortunately for our planet, there is a relatively large moon of its own, walking in an orbit not far away, resulting in very beautiful moonlit nights.
But if our destination is the picturesque nights, it may be useful to swap our moon with rings around Saturn.
In fact, there was a ring around the Earth, as a stage of the formation of the moon.
When the planet hit the ground, huge amounts of matter burst into space, taking a circle around the earth, forming a ring until they merged with each other to form the moon we know today, and only because those materials were orbiting beyond the limit ) Of the land.
In 1848, the French mathematician Edouard Roche concluded that when a relatively large moon approached a planet sufficiently, the planet's gravity would rupture that moon.
This happens because the force of attracting the planet on the moon is not equal, the planet attracts more on the side of the moon, while the power of attraction decreases as we get closer to the poles.
When the Moon approaches the planet sufficiently, that heterogeneous attraction will become so large that it will be torn apart. Each planet has its own Roche, and the entire Saturn rings are within the planet's Roche limit.
Some astronomers believe that the rings of Saturn are materials that did not enable the Union to form a moon because they are placed within the limit (Roche).
The force of Saturn's attraction prevents the granules of matter from clustering together to form one body such as the moon.
Another popular idea among scientists is the presence of one or more satellites at the beginning of Saturn's formation, so that they fall outside the limit (Roche).
The larger the planet, the greater the gravitational force associated with it, and the greater the limit (Roch) licking it.
Therefore, during the growth of Saturn size, increased the limit (Roch) associated with it, and soon grew over the internal satellites, which led to the fragmentation, and the remains of those scattered satellites form the rings of Saturn wonderful today.
Large fragments of those old satellites may still be present in the rings until today, much smaller than the satellites they once formed, but they would exceed the average size of a piece of the pieces in the rings a thousand times.
Another theory suggests that, just a few hundred million years ago [in the time when the first dinosaurs had made a pilgrimage to earth], there probably were no rings around Saturn at all.
These rings were formed when one or more satellites approached Saturn too much, and when they were within the Roche limit, Saturn's attractiveness tearing them apart. After millions of years of colliding with each other, these pieces were milled behind the small pieces of rings Today.
None of these scenarios produced rings around the planet.
It rarely matters, imagining the shape of our planet with rings around it is nothing more than an exercise of imagination.
But if our destination is the picturesque nights, it may be useful to swap our moon with rings around Saturn.
In fact, there was a ring around the Earth, as a stage of the formation of the moon.
When the planet hit the ground, huge amounts of matter burst into space, taking a circle around the earth, forming a ring until they merged with each other to form the moon we know today, and only because those materials were orbiting beyond the limit ) Of the land.
In 1848, the French mathematician Edouard Roche concluded that when a relatively large moon approached a planet sufficiently, the planet's gravity would rupture that moon.
This happens because the force of attracting the planet on the moon is not equal, the planet attracts more on the side of the moon, while the power of attraction decreases as we get closer to the poles.
When the Moon approaches the planet sufficiently, that heterogeneous attraction will become so large that it will be torn apart. Each planet has its own Roche, and the entire Saturn rings are within the planet's Roche limit.
Some astronomers believe that the rings of Saturn are materials that did not enable the Union to form a moon because they are placed within the limit (Roche).
The force of Saturn's attraction prevents the granules of matter from clustering together to form one body such as the moon.
Another popular idea among scientists is the presence of one or more satellites at the beginning of Saturn's formation, so that they fall outside the limit (Roche).
The larger the planet, the greater the gravitational force associated with it, and the greater the limit (Roch) licking it.
Therefore, during the growth of Saturn size, increased the limit (Roch) associated with it, and soon grew over the internal satellites, which led to the fragmentation, and the remains of those scattered satellites form the rings of Saturn wonderful today.
Large fragments of those old satellites may still be present in the rings until today, much smaller than the satellites they once formed, but they would exceed the average size of a piece of the pieces in the rings a thousand times.
Another theory suggests that, just a few hundred million years ago [in the time when the first dinosaurs had made a pilgrimage to earth], there probably were no rings around Saturn at all.
These rings were formed when one or more satellites approached Saturn too much, and when they were within the Roche limit, Saturn's attractiveness tearing them apart. After millions of years of colliding with each other, these pieces were milled behind the small pieces of rings Today.
None of these scenarios produced rings around the planet.
It rarely matters, imagining the shape of our planet with rings around it is nothing more than an exercise of imagination.
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| On the equator, the rings will go directly above us, and as your view will be parallel to the level of the rings, all you will see is a bright line that curves from horizon to horizon. So the rings will look from the city of Quito on the equator. |
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| If we move north towards Guatemala, the rings begin to appear, and the illumination of the dark side of the moon will be much greater than we used to, because of the increase in sunlight reflected by the rings. |
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| When you go across Polynesia on Capricorn, on latitude 80 degrees south, there is a 180 degree panorama that gives you an idea of how wonderful these rings are. That dark, oval shape in the middle of the rings is the shadow of the earth, and you will be able to see it every night passing through the rings as the hourglass of God itself. So it seems at midnight that its maximum size. The edge of this shade is blotchy with a little pinkish orange as sunlight crosses the earth's atmosphere. |
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| In Washington, DC - at latitude 38 degrees north - the rings begin to hide behind the horizon, yet it will remain an amazing sight as it hits the earth's sky day and night. |
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| In the Arctic circle, the rings barely appear above the horizon line. As you can see from the city of Nome in Alaska. Great rings illuminate the landscape more than a slightly completed moon. However, unlike the sun or the moon, the rings do not shine or wander, they will always be visible, day and night, in the same place at any time. |
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