Granted, material that close would acrete with the star during formation, but say a close rock planet was oblitterated by a colision or something and the debis fell in too close to remake the planet.
2007-03-05 14:37:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If the star is a young one and has not yet formed planets than yes the star could have a ring of material around it. Or if a planet got too close (withing the Roche limit) it could break up from the tidal stresses on it and form a ring like Saturn's.
2007-03-05 14:49:37 · answer #1 · answered by Twizard113 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the mass of the asteriod belt were greater and had more objects, then it could be considered a "ring".
It is possible that other stars have larger asteroid belts, closer in that they could be consider "rings".
I don't know of any that have been discovered yet, but it is possible.
2007-03-06 00:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the smaller particles might be swept away by stellar winds and by perhaps by radiation pressure. There could be gravel banks orbiting for a good while though.
2007-03-06 05:03:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah its called the keplar belt, we have a ring around our star, sometimes asteroids bump inwards towards the sun and we catch wind of them on our telescopes
2007-03-06 18:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by Adam B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋