To: Pontiac
Any orbital body large enough to created the kind of gravity needed to capture and asteroid. Mass effects gravity. The large the mass the more gravity it exerts and that's The Big Guy, Jupiter. He's far closer to us( 818 million miles) then Neptune and Uranus are..
40 posted on
02/10/2014 7:55:44 PM PST by
jmacusa
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To: jmacusa
The Big Guy, Jupiter. He's far closer to us( 818 million miles) then Neptune and Uranus are.. Agreed,
The others are out there between us and the Ort Cloud however and are bound to suck up something headed this way occasionally when talking about the galactic time scale.
42 posted on
02/10/2014 9:59:32 PM PST by
Pontiac
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