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Nothing like a little soft-core reading.
Kind of turns "Jupiter for Dummies" on its head.
Shaken Planet Syndrome?
Jupiter just doing it’s job protecting Earth.
Poor Baby Jupiter! Still butthurt after 4.5 billion years.
When was the last time Uranus got slammed?
No wonder it has a giant Red Spot.......................
I have a video of a respected professor who confidently talked about how it was an obvious process for the nascent Solar System to have the rocky planets of Mercury to Mars being in-system to the gas giants as the latter could not survive the ‘solar wind’ up close. Then the exoplanet surveys discovered systems with gas giants at close orbit to their suns.
Astronomy & Cosmology have been turned on their heads multiple times since Edwin Hubble got the modern era started a century ago! Every time the grey beards think something is settled ... oops! Much the same as in Geology and Plate Tectonics revolutions from the 1960s that caused almost all textbooks to be trashed.
“The planet that may have struck Jupiter would have to have been huge, according to the simulations. The researchers estimate that it would have been roughly 10 times as massive as Earth...”
Color me skeptical, because anything that heavy would be be just about the point that scientists speculate as the minimum core mass to form a gas giant. If they are talking about the total mass of the core and atmosphere, it would still be a “gas dwarf” type planet. I just can’t imagine how anything that heavy would get anywhere near enough to Jupiter to collide with it. The gravitational resonances of the solar system don’t seem to allow for that.