Jupiter Is Firing Dangerous Comets On Earth

[Elderberry]

Strange Sounds 1/10/2020

Astronomers believed that Jupiter was protecting Earth from dangerous comets and asteroids.

A new research shows the opposite: The gas giant is actually actively flinging objects into the inner solar system.

There is a popular theory suggesting that Jupiter, with its tremendous mass, acts like a gigantic shield in space, sucking in or deflecting dangerous space objects left over from the formation of the solar system. But a group of astronomers suggests the opposite: Jupiter is more a sniper than a shield.

In a pair of papers, Grazier shows how Jovian planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus – affect other objects in the outer solar system and how icy bodies can be transformed by Jupiter into potentially deadly comets.

The latest 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.

More: https://strangesounds.org/2020/01/jupiter-fires-earth-with-comets-video.html

[Gefn]

Weird. I’ve always been taught that Jupiter saved our butt from such potentially catastrophic things like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

If Shoemaker Levy had hit Earth we would be toast.

[Joe Wooten]

Jupiter does all three. It absorbs some, flings some out, and flings some in. Overall it IS a shield, as two of the three keeps comets away from the inner system.

[Gefn]

Jupiter does all three. It absorbs some, flings some out, and flings some in. Overall it IS a shield, as two of the three keeps comets away from the inner system.

I just saw a documentary on Nova that aired this past fall that explained all this with stunning video and photos from Juno.

My mind is blown. But in the good way,you know ?