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The Skeptics Guide #889 - Jul 23 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Moons Do Not Allow for Giant Rings

Jupiter likely never had a large ring sist because of those pesky moons. Uranus and neptune are smaller, so they have smaller ring systems. Saturn is big enough to have giant rings, but not doesn't have a lot of close up big moons. Jupiteris bigger, but it thens got thoseof the four galilean satellites, which are close large moons, and they just basically disrupt any massive ring formation. It's sad though that saturn will lose, well, lose those rings il rain down on the sat ot will be so long gone by then.

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