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'Jupiter swallowed planet 10 times the size of Earth'
Deccan Chronicle ^
| 8/12/10
Posted on 08/13/2010 12:01:53 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
RACISM!
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:03:38 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: B-Chan
Jupiter will just use his Racial Credit Card.
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:06:23 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
Studies on Jupiter have revealed that the giant planet, which is more than 120 times bigger than the Earth, has an extremely small core that weighs just two to 10 Earth masses.Or, roughly the size of Michael Moore.
To: LibWhacker
" . . .said the super-Earth might have grown into a gas
giant itself one day if it had not collided
with Jupiter.
Can you imagine the belch that would have created?
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:12:30 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
To: LibWhacker
"Jupiter, the biggest planet in the solar system, might have gained its dominant position after swallowing up a smaller planet, scientists believe."
And do planets burp after eating?
To: righttackle44
You beat me to it by 39 seconds!!!
To: LibWhacker
Why do they think that a huge planet could have shot to the core of Jupiter, blasting apart everything there, but by now still not allowing these fragments to have been pulled back in from the effect of gravity?
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:15:15 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: LibWhacker
“Then it barrelled into the giant’s core about half an hour later and the energy of the collision could have vaporised much of the core.”
How do they know it was a half-hour and not forty-five minutes?
/nitpicky
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:18:23 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:19:40 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: LibWhacker
Immanuel Velikovsky, call your office.
To: ConservativeMind
Don’t know and that is a fair question. Maybe enough kinetic energy was transferred that the fragments achieved escape velocity.
Take New Scientist’s articles with a grain of salt. They tend to sensationalize the news and many articles are of the “sky is falling/end of the world” genre. They do have a decent, sometimes funny, jokes page.
To: LibWhacker
After everyone gets finished with the stupid unfunny wisecracks, we will be able to discuss the actual science in the premise.
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:22:02 PM PDT
by
webheart
(I am a Sarah fan.)
To: LibWhacker
What’s wrong with you guys. This isn’t the FR I know, 15 posts and not a single Uranus joke.
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:23:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: webheart
no chance that’ll backfire...
To: LibWhacker
Jupiter's core might have been vaporised Just to put the painfully obvious out there...everything is (1) caused by Global warming (vaporized core!), and (2) it just had to be Bush's fault...
I now return you to the normally scheduled thread responses...
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:26:57 PM PDT
by
NorCoGOP
(OBAMA: Living proof that hope is not a plan.)
To: LibWhacker
What are these “scientists” using for the basis of this theory (or, rather, hypothesis, since there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that such an incident happened)?
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:27:35 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
To: LibWhacker
So the giant red spot is basically a scab. Call the shop steward!
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:28:07 PM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
To: KoRn
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posted on
08/13/2010 12:29:28 PM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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