Could the dinosaurs have observed Saturn's rings? - SSW

Could the dinosaurs have observed Saturn's rings?  - Nicolas Altobelli

Two main schools of thoughts are battling around the question of whether Saturn's rings are as old as the Solar System, if they formed together with Saturn, or were acquired more recently (young ring hypothesis). The Cassini mission acquired various measurements that need to be interpreted in a coherent way to find the correct answer. Radar and optical measurements constrain the amount of non-icy contamination by exogenous material accumulated over time by the rings, the current micrometeoroid infall has been characterised, as well as the total mass of the ring. Ring evolution models have been fed with those new measurements but still no consensus seems to emerge... we will present the latest status of the (sometime) heated discussions around the Age of the Rings.