Earth's ring

Several years ago, I remember reading that a scientist had found a small, faint ring around the Earth. My google skills seem to be failing me, because now when I attempt to find out anything about it, all I find are dozens of sites that say rings have only been found around Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus (besides the big obvious ones around Saturn).

Can anyone point me towards a cite about Earth’s ring?

If you wait long enough, we’ll have a ring of space junk.

I found sites discussing the possibility of a past ring during the Cretaceous period and after the impact that created the Moon, but nothing about a current ring, however faint.

However, I did just found out one of Saturn’s moons, Rhea, has its own ring.

I have a vague recollection of reading about Earth having a faint ring, but that’s it. So you aren’t the only one to have heard that engineer_comp_geek.

There is a dust ring around the Earth’s orbit, more concentrated behind the planet as it moves than in front of it. Created by dust spiralling in towards the Sun tending to get trapped in resonance with the Earth.

I have friends with dust rings like that.

Did you tell them, “There are rings around Uranus”?

I wondered how long it would take for someone to make a Uranus joke. :stuck_out_tongue:

Cool. I may not have found what I was looking for so far, but at least I learned something new.