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After 500–600 million years (about 4 billion years ago) Jupiter and Saturn fell into a 2:1 resonance: Saturn orbited the Sun once for every two Jupiter orbits. [47] This resonance created a gravitational push against the outer planets, possibly causing Neptune to surge past Uranus and plough into the ancient Kuiper belt. [69]
Theia (/ ˈ θ iː ə /) is a hypothesized ancient planet in the early Solar System which, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, with some of the resulting ejected debris coalescing to form the Moon.
One side supports that they are ancient, and were created simultaneously with Saturn from the original nebular material (around 4.6 billion years ago), [124] or shortly after the LHB (around 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago). [125] [126] The other side supports that they are much younger, created around 100 million years ago.
Earth four billion years ago may help us check for life on one of Saturn’s moons today. Scientists are making a case for adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged.
The closest well-measured approach was Scholz's Star, which approached to ~ 50,000 AU of the Sun some ~70 thousands years ago, likely passing through the outer Oort cloud. [267] There is a 1% chance every billion years that a star will pass within 100 AU of the Sun, potentially disrupting the Solar System. [268]
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time. ... about 445 million years ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering rings could be around 4.5 billion years old just like Saturn, a Japanese-led team reported Monday.
Neptune's moon Triton falls through the planet's Roche limit, potentially disintegrating into a planetary ring system similar to Saturn's. [109] 4.5 billion Mars reaches the same solar flux as that of the Earth when it first formed 4.5 billion years ago from today. [94] < 5 billion