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Why doesn't Earth have Saturn-like Rings?
Earth doesn't deserve those rings! Only AumSum does!
Oh AumSum!
It's got to do with Roche limit.
It is the distance at which objects tend to be ripped apart by the planet's gravitational pull.
Now, in case of Saturn, it is popularly believed that a celestial body like moon or comet got too close to it and exceeded the Roche limit.
Hence, it got ripped apart into pieces, thus forming its rings.
Now, Earth also has a Moon, but since it is beyond the Roche limit, it doesn't get ripped apart into pieces to form rings.