Earth Had Rings Like Saturn Millions of Years Ago, Study Suggests

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers say.

This artist's rendition could have been somewhat like what the view of the sky was like 460 million years ago, minus the trees and contrails .Astrophysics was once so crazy in love with Earth, it put a ring on it. But the engagement didn’t last, and the halo formation fell away.

They also looked at the locations of the craters. Meteorites tend to fall randomly, but the majority of the impacts were centralized within 30 degrees of the equator. That’s pretty tough to explain as happenstance, given that 70% of the Earth’s crust lies outside this area. They determined the chances of the impacts being random were minuscule, at just 1 in 25 million.

“The idea that a ring system could have influenced global temperatures adds a new layer of complexity to our understanding of how extra-terrestrial events may have shaped Earth’s climate,” said Tomkins.

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