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Anonymous Thu Jan 12 07:46:05 2012 No.4246241 [Reply] [Original]

why do none of the inner planets have rings around them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 07:49:21 2012 No.4246243 the sun sucked up all the extra crap that would've been moons and shit that crashed or got ripped apart by gravity and turned into rings.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 07:50:28 2012 No.4246244 Mars will have in a short time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 07:50:36 2012 No.4246246 File: 102 KB, 337x367, 1319071521486.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4246243 What about the asteroid belt? Why hasn't mercury been sucked up?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 07:57:17 2012 No.4246250 >>4246243 >>4246246 Its more the result of solar winds than the sun's gravity. Rings exist beyond a planet's magnetic field, and solar winds are more concentrated the closer you are to the sun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 08:08:37 2012 No.4246263 They all do, even ours. But they're very thin and consist of mostly rocky meteors. Zero ice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 08:12:09 2012 No.4246272 >>4246241 Earth does have a ring, it's made of Anti-Protons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 08:13:09 2012 No.4246273 Earth has a ring of ANTIMATTER. It's extremely small.