Dwarf Planet Rings Challenge Secular Cosmologists

For a mighty long time, the rings of Saturn got the attention and made other planets envious. Did you know there are rings around Uranus? Jupiter? Neptune? It takes special telescopes to see them, though. Then there are other celestial objects with rings.

Way out yonder orbiting between Jupiter are icy planetesimals known as centaurs. Some of these have rings as well. Denizens of the secular science industry think they know how rings form. Like other materials, Quaoar does not perform its cosmic dance according to secular expectations.

Artist impression of Quaoar and its ring, WikiComm / ESA (CC BY-SA IGO 3.0), modified at PhotoFunia

Quaoar resides in the Kuiper Belt, a junkyard of rock and ice planetesimals beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was discovered in 2002 and its moon Weywot in 2007. The names come from deities of the Tongva people. Interesting that something smaller than Pluto could have a moon. It is also interesting that it has rings, the discoveries of which were announced in 2023. However, the rings are inferred by the activity of light and have not been actually observed. These rings do not fit the standard uniformitarian views, but work well with biblical creation ideas.

Stargazers have always found the rings of Saturn intriguing. They have gone from wondering what they are made of to today’s wondering about their age. Just recently, some scientists calculated that the rings may be relatively young, from less than 100 Ma to about 400 Ma within the uniformitarian timescale. This result was based on the estimated incoming mass flux of micrometeoroids divided into the estimated number of pollutants in the rings, with the assumption that the rings began as water ice.

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