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To: RightWhale
Jupiter has protected Earth from too many cataclysmic asteroid collisions

What? Jupiter would have to be huge to do accomplish this in any significant manner. Instead, Jupiter is really quite small compared to -- what is not Jupiter.

83 posted on 01/07/2002 6:34:40 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Jupiter is really quite small compared to -- what is not Jupiter.

Jupiter contains more mass than all the rest of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, gas, and dust in the solar system combined. Excluding the sun.

86 posted on 01/07/2002 7:38:18 PM PST by RightWhale
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