Earth Used to Have Large Planetary Rings; 467 Million Years Ago

Approximately 467 million years ago, if you would have looked up in the daytime, you would have seen a prominent ring system. This ring system was created due to a very large asteroid disentegrating due to Earth's gravity after getting captured by our planet. While still being debated, this new theory would better explain several aspects of the Ordovician world better than our prior models do.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] Andrew G. Tomkins, Erin L. Martin, Peter A. Cawood, Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 646, 2024, 118991, ISSN 0012-821X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.1.... (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science..., CC BY 4.0.
Note: Source 1 is the main scientific paper this video is referencing, and the paper which claims that an ancient ring system once existed in Earth's orbit.
[2] Schmitz, B., Yin, QZ., Sanborn, M. et al. A new type of solar-system material recovered from Ordovician marine limestone. Nat Commun 7, ncomms11851 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11851, CC BY 4.0.
[3] del Rey, Á., Rasmussen, C.M.Ø., Calner, M. et al. Stable ocean redox during the main phase of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Commun Earth Environ 3, 220 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00..., CC BY 4.0.
[4] Glen Fergus, 2015, Article link: http://gergs.net/all_palaeotemps/, Photo link: https://i0.wp.com/gergs.net/wp-conten..., CC BY 4.0