Comments on: Another study suggests Saturn’s rings are young, much younger than the planet https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-study-suggests-saturns-rings-are-young-much-younger-than-the-planet/ Mon, 15 May 2023 02:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-study-suggests-saturns-rings-are-young-much-younger-than-the-planet/#comment-1412660 Mon, 15 May 2023 02:51:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95032#comment-1412660 In reply to David Eastman.

David Eastman: Yup, I think that’s at least one such study that lurks in the basement of my memory. I also think there were others, even earlier, around 2010.

]]> By: David Eastman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-study-suggests-saturns-rings-are-young-much-younger-than-the-planet/#comment-1412657 Mon, 15 May 2023 01:51:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95032#comment-1412657 Here is the 2019 study that is probably what you remember: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aat2965. Ars Technica has a good article on the new study and the history https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/more-evidence-emerges-that-saturns-rings-are-much-younger-than-the-planet/

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-study-suggests-saturns-rings-are-young-much-younger-than-the-planet/#comment-1412651 Mon, 15 May 2023 01:31:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95032#comment-1412651 Surprised this is considered news. As far back as I can remember, the rings have been attributed to the disintegration of a moon which it the Roche Limit. Which, would make the rings, by definition, younger than the planet. Maybe the fact that it adds more confirmation to that theory?

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