I suspect Jupiter absorbs far more than it inflicts damage on Earth but over time we will learn more about what all happens. Even with Jupiter we are vulnerable to whatever decides to land on us.
But I do like that guy's name. A lot.
Posted on 09/17/2021 8:02:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Jupiter throws comets and asteroids towards Earth like a ‘sniper’, scientist warnsYou have to take those Jovians seriously because they are sniping and taking pot-shots at us.
by David Aragorn, January 14, 2020It was once thought that the gas giant Jupiter protected Earth from asteroids and other deadly space objects. But one scientist has warned that the massive planet actually acts as a ‘sniper rather than a shield’. Kevin Grazier, a physicist who used to work at NASA, has published several papers exploring whether Jupiter’s gravity deflects comets and asteroids away from our vulnerable planet. ‘Our simulation suggests that instead of shielding the terrestrial planets, Jupiter was, in fact, taking “pot shots”.
“Our simulations show that Jupiter is just as likely to send comets at Earth as deflect them away, and we’ve seen that in the real solar system.’
I suspect Jupiter absorbs far more than it inflicts damage on Earth but over time we will learn more about what all happens. Even with Jupiter we are vulnerable to whatever decides to land on us.
But I do like that guy's name. A lot.
I wonder if Jupiter has acted like a big brother and prevented a Earth collision?
That is and the other gas giants jobs.............
Well, at least not the kind of dinosaurs which drove SUVs and contributed to global warming 65 million years ago.
It’s too small to be Uranus.
Article written by Michelle Starr, no less....
A Vulcan spaceship?
Yeah. Yeah. That’s cool.
Better them than us.
Next time I’m up there I’ll take a look. Until then, I’m not going to worry about it.
Trump did it.
Michelle Starr is a Senior Journalist at ScienceAlert; her deep love and curiosity for the cosmos has made the publication a world leader in reporting developments in space research. She is an award-winning journalist with over 15 years of experience in the science and technology sectors. Prior to joining the ScienceAlert team in 2017, she worked for seven years at CNET, where she created the role of Science Editor. Her work has appeared in The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 ans 2020 anthologies, and in 2014, she was awarded the Best Consumer Technology Journalist in the Optus IT Journalism Awards. She absolutely adores orcas, corvids, and octopuses, and would be quite content to welcome any one of them as the new overlords of Earth. Twitter: @riding_red
Dark Smears is a great name for a rock band.
When I was a teen, circa 1969-70, there was a local garage band called ‘Dark Entry’. They got their name from a road sign in front of a tunnel....
There was also another local garage band called Lynyrd Skynyrd......................
I didn’t see a hole forming, like when shoemaker-Levy struck the planet.
Maybe it was just some alien tourists snapping photos.
Yup!
“I see you are from the Department of Redundancy Department.”
You mean the Department of Redundant, Redundancy Department?
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