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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:12:18 UTC No. 16617634
Is a double ringed planet, with the two rings at an angle to each other possible? With the right conditions of course (orbital velocities of rings are perfect, correct pacing between the 2 rings, etc). I've seen this type of ring system in cartoons, and I wonder if this could work. My hypothesis is that it would be relatively stable for a couple years then start to form chaotic motion, eventually become a single ring system. But what does /sci/ think?
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:50:18 UTC No. 16617678
>>16617634
sometimes i wonder if the posters here are just ais that poll this website for shit they cant answer properly so they can get more training data undetected
and to answer your question, no, they would smash into eachother and cancel each other out until it was one ring
you can try and pirate universe sandbox and make one yourself and see what happens!
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:57:23 UTC No. 16617685
>>16617678
>Pirating.
Just buy it? It's not that hard, and universe sandbox wouldn't be good for that simulation. It doesn't simulate rings as full bodies and would only have thousands of them.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:13:05 UTC No. 16617700
It would only be possible if the rings had different radii, and didn't actually intersect. Collisions are what makes rings so flat, if you have two rings intersecting the particles will smash into each other, eventually merging into one ring.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:03:44 UTC No. 16617729
>>16617678
>quantum mechanics means you can have a floating human brain in outer space and also go through walls
>double-ringed planet? no that's not possible in physics bro
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:25:32 UTC No. 16617744
>>16617634
Extremely improbable. About as probable as a solar system with planets with wild inclinations. The dust clouds that form these structures have a net angular momentum and the rings eventually end up in the plane perpendicular to the net angular momentum vector because, well, angular momentum conservation.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:13:26 UTC No. 16617813
>>16617744
>About as probable as a solar system with planets with wild inclinations.
2 out of 9?
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 04:06:00 UTC No. 16618408
>>16617634
I am not 100% sure, but I suspect not.
It is tempting to say that if you had two different large objects smack into the planet from different orbital planes, say one from the an asteroid in the star-system's orbital plane and one object from outside the solar system which came in at an angle, and if the impact energies were significantly different, then you might have two plane's worth of debris that would accrete into separate disks.
My thinking though is that in order for the planes of debris to accrete into a stable ring, the plane of accretion has to be normal to the planet's axis of rotation, or else nodal precession will cause the the many debris particle orbits to get pulled out of sync over time, just resulting in a big annular "smear"
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:15:01 UTC No. 16618607
>>16617634
Sure, if the two rings are at different non-overlapping radii. Over time, the two rings would interact and merge which would be destructive, but for a period you could have two rings.