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He looks like a jovial fella.
Spending time with him is just a gas!
Jupiter has a huge influence in the Solarsystem, the big gravitation of Jupiter and also the Sun can deflect most of the asteroids and Comets from the Earth orbit, but in certain circumstances can do the opposite and launch objects into Earth’s orbit, depending on what angle they enter the system…
A good example is Apophis (∅~370 m), which is coming to visit us in 2029, although at quite a distance, but it will return in Abril 2036 and in this case, if it passes through a certain point there is a possibility that it will impact the Earth…
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
Simulate an impact where ever you want and see the consecuences scrolling down the results.
There’s a giant asteroid that’s trying to hit us but is caught in Jupiter’s orbit?
Jupiter is our guardian angel. A big asteroid-deflecting gas giant might be a condition for complex life as we know it to evolve.
Every good solar systems has a big ol’ Electrolux in common.
The trouble I have with statements like this is that “as we know it” is doing so much of the heavy lifting. We don’t have any experience with extraterrestrial life so it’s difficult to imagine how different or similar it may be to our own. We have a sample size of 1 with a completely unknown population. The best we can do right now look at line spectra and make inferences from organic chemistry. But that tells us very little about the potential forms life may take.
Well yeah, but if you want to look for planets with life, it’s probably a good idea to look the ones with conditions we know work.
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I never got that. Surely, it’s nearly as likely to divert an asteroid that would miss us to a course that would hit us as it is to do the opposite, right? The number that are actually trapped/impacted is a tiny percentage, and then the percentage of those that would have hit us must be a small percentage of that, is it really enough to be statistically significant?
Jupiter is doing a terrible job at protecting us from meteorites. Just ask the dinosaurs.
I asked mine, she said “pretty bird?”. She’s right.
That’s a p good batting average tbh
