Paper on Dynamics of an Earth Ring

"Paul Blay" wrote:

"assumed an opaque ring, like Saturn's B-ring, scaled to earth-size"

Presumably this was just a 'proof of concept' as the Saturn / Saturn moons
system is vastly different to the Earth / Moon system.

Fair enough. I am still coming to terms with this idea of a
perpetually ringless Earth though!

I had such high hopes that an asteroid could be carved out in a high
orbit to give us a dream view of 'ring rise' and 'ring set'. It
appears that through some mysterious cosmic conspiracy (aimed against
me!), the balance of gravitational forces between the heavenly bodies
would never permit such splendours... Well, when I mentioned this to a
friend who's into astronomy, he was very happy and he said if there's
ever a ring formation glowing at night to add on top of the Moon and
light pollutions... he'd be first to buy a plot on the lunar farside!

I suppose that's why god gave us the outer planets to look to for
those kinds of indulgences.

Abdul Ahad