In case Earth had a ring of meteors like Saturn, how would that affect its tides?

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I know the meteors would still act like a moon broken down, but would they be big enough to cause a change in the tides? Wouldn't the tides pull them in and disintegrate them?

Would they rotate like the moon does? If yes, would spring and neap tides still be form? Would we have rotary tides?

Thank you for the help.

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Earth's only moon causes high and low tide when it is near or far from earth repectively.
ring of meteors like Saturn will definitely increase level of tide high&#92;low.
It is more likely to have a higher tides

Scarus · Answer

The rings of Saturn are made of millions of small particles of rock, fragments of a broken moon. If a similar ring is made on Earth, it would also be made up of many small rocks. Each of them are capable of exerting gravity since they have mass, but each individual rock would not have enough gravity to induce significant tidal effects on the Earth. A ring as a whole may be able to cause such an event, but many factors decide whether this would happen, such as the overall mass of the ring and how close the ring is.

And yes, they rotate like a spinning ring. The rocks follow each other in one direction, so the orbit of the ring is basically the ring itself. Differences in tides will not happen due to orbit of the ring.

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All good answers.

The tides might be affected it would depend on the mass of the rocks. The bigger the mass the bigger the affect.

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In case Earth had a ring of meteors like Saturn, how would that affect its tides?

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