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Thanks! So, as you said, since it's in the same plane as the planets, that should be mathematically impossible, unless you're on the equator, as you said. The Moon does intersect the sun (and we have eclipses), but we'd expect the ring to be very thin. Here's an article with art showing what...

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Imagine that instead of the moon we had in its place a ring of debris that somehow stays in place (there are other problems such as rocks closer to Earth would fall down, etc., but let's ignore it for simplicity.) But it follows the orbit of the Moon. Now, imagine...

Bear with me, this is a very specific question for a scifi book I'm writing. If we had a ring in place of the moon, and you lived somewhere in the United States, how often would the ring intersect with the sun when it's setting (or rising, if it makes it easier). I know that it can take up to...