So this is neat...
On the one hand, this is neat to think about. On the other, it would be really unlikely that a sufficiently large object would just gently sidle up to our Roche limit so the most likely way we'd gain rings would be via a catastrophic impact.
Oops.
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They'd also interfere with the orbits of most of our satellites. They may have been pretty, but be glad we don't have them... They'd be more trouble than they are worth.
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