• Question: what do the large moons/planets get zapped by to make the rocks around saturn?

    Asked by tararowanx to Hitesh, Hywel, Mae, Nik, Tiffany on 13 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tiffany Taylor

      Tiffany Taylor answered on 13 Jun 2012:


      I just wikipedia’d it. They say an asteroid shower might have broken up a nearby moon about 4 billion years ago. So the rings are not contently being added to, they are from an event which happened a really long time ago and have stuck.

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