Why Doesn't Earth Have Rings?

Plenty of other planets in the Solar System have rings. So why not Earth?

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Sources:
http://www.universetoday.com/84129/wh...
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/in...
http://blog.hmns.org/2010/04/the-roch...
http://io9.com/5931098/using-the-roch...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/o...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...

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