If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I mostly share posts about dogs and dinosaurs. Recently, I joined a new dinosaur page, and I have learned a ton from their posts. Last night, I read something that blew my mind.
The post said, “Dinosaurs existed before Saturn had rings.” WHAT!!!!
Since I take nothing at face value (and I had never thought about the age of Saturn’s rings even though I wrote a post about them), I googled before accepting the claim. According to NASA, Saturn’s rings formed between 100 and 10 million years ago. Dinosaurs lived between 245 and 65 million years ago, so if they had had telescopes they would not have seen the bumps that Galileo saw when he looked at Saturn.
I haven’t done a deep dive into why Saturn’s rings are so much younger than the planet itself, but I look forward to learning the facts (and sharing them with you.) I’m starting with this NASA article.
Learning new things about dinosaurs and planets is awesome. I hope you learn something new today too.