The Rings of Saturn Are Moving at the Same Rate as Earth

Our moon doesn't spin at the same rate as Earth, right? That's right. Right. So that would suggest that the moon was not necessarily formed when the Earth was formed, right? Exactly. And we think that the moon is the result of a huge collision, that something came and smashed into the Earth and released an enormous amount of debris, which then coalesced into a moon. The rings of Saturn are especially complicated because there are so many rings, and some of them are moving with Saturn,. Some of them may actually be rotating the other direction. We'll dig into it in a moment when we talk about how the rings of planets are formed.