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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2341395" data-attributes="member: 2205">No they wouldn't.&nbsp; The orbits of ring particles, as far as we know, are stable orbits.&nbsp; They don't decay with anywhere near that level of frequency.Every one of those statements is inaccurate.&nbsp; It would look like a broad silver band, not a granular band of chunks.&nbsp; It would not burn unless the inner edge were actually within the atmosphere, which is inconsistent with everything we know about ring systems from the four in our solar system.&nbsp; For the same reason, there woudn't be a constant barrage of falling stars on the surface, or in the sky -- the inner rings are too far away.&nbsp; Also, with the rate of ring burn you're talking about, without a constant source to feed new particles into the ring, the ring becomes a very short-lived structure.&nbsp; A few thousand years at most and it's been all burned into the atmosphere, and there is no more ring to speak of.And there's no reason to assume that particles the size of a house even exist in the ring -- Jupiter's ring is made up of particles that are the size of smoke particles.&nbsp; And even particles the size of a house would burn in the atmosphere before reaching the surface.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 2341395, member: 2205"] No they wouldn't. The orbits of ring particles, as far as we know, are stable orbits. They don't decay with anywhere near that level of frequency. Every one of those statements is inaccurate. It [i]would[/i] look like a broad silver band, not a granular band of chunks. It would not burn unless the inner edge were actually within the atmosphere, which is inconsistent with everything we know about ring systems from the four in our solar system. For the same reason, there woudn't be a constant barrage of falling stars on the surface, or in the sky -- the inner rings are too far away. Also, with the rate of ring burn you're talking about, without a constant source to feed new particles into the ring, the ring becomes a very short-lived structure. A few thousand years at most and it's been all burned into the atmosphere, and there is no more ring to speak of. And there's no reason to assume that particles the size of a house even exist in the ring -- Jupiter's ring is made up of particles that are the size of smoke particles. And even particles the size of a house would burn in the atmosphere before reaching the surface. [/QUOTE]

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