Why do the planets that have rings have rings?

Answer 1

Since you asked this question in this category, I suppose the answer you want is "They have rings because God gave them rings".

Answer 2

Because the rings were first either #1 Moons that were destroyed by passing asteroids or by the planets gravity or #2, they were created by comets, asteroids and other bodies smashing into one another in the early days of the solar system (much of the rings of saturn are ice, so we know they must come from comets, much like our own oceans). The reason they are in a 'flat ring' formation is easy, its because anything that's spun in a circle for any length of time will find the "plane" of the orbit of the planet and gravity will of course flatten it.

God may have laid out the laws of Physics, be I'm sure He let Nature work her own wonders with HIS laws; which is why He created them the way He did.

Answer 3

Because the gravitational pull of those planets has pulled in asteroids, rocks, and chunks of ice and dust. Some of this likely would have hit the earth. It is believed by many that the other planets in our system give us protection from these objects. Still other believe it all came about by chance. A cosmic roll of the dice on an enormous scale that all these things ended up, simply by chance, precisely where they needed to be which again by mere chance allowed life to form on this planet. Again by sheer luck this life evolved into complex beings.
WOOOHOO better go play the lotto tonight. All you atheist are on a roll.

Wait a minute Where did the matter come from. How did that start?

Answer 4

They really aren't rings, they just appear to be. In fact, they are belts of asteroids and bits of space debris, rocks, dust, that seem, from a distance, to be a solid mass but in fact are not. There is a theory that in some cases, the asteroids, rocks, dust etc. are what is left after collisions with other travellers across the galaxy -- comets and that sort of thing, or even collisions that happened eons ago, between small stars or planets.

Answer 5

Earth used to have a ring. In fact it might have another ring someday if a large enough protoplanet smacks into it, ejecting enough debris into space. The debris forms an accretion disk and swirls around the planet just like any other object would... If there's a large enough "seed" in the debris, the dust and rocks will stick to it and form a moon. This takes quite a while.

Answer 6

The rings are asteroids that look like rings from our distance

Answer 7

Particles of dust,ice,and rock are pulled in by the gravity of the planet.

Answer 8

just that piercing fad. Itll pass

Answer 9

same way with satellites