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At one point, the two may fall into sync, at which time Jupiter's constant gravitational tugs could accumulate and pull Mercury off course, with 1–2% probability, 3–4 billion years into the future. This could eject it from the Solar System altogether [1] or send it on a collision course with Venus, the Sun, or Earth. [10]
The first impact occurred at 20:13 UTC on July 16, 1994, when fragment A of the [comet's] nucleus slammed into Jupiter's southern hemisphere at about 60 km/s (35 mi/s). Instruments on Galileo detected a fireball that reached a peak temperature of about 24,000 K (23,700 °C; 42,700 °F), compared to the typical Jovian cloud-top temperature of ...
A computer simulation of a star falling into a black hole in the process of forming an accretion disk. Computational astrophysics refers to the methods and computing tools developed and used in astrophysics research.
The jumping-Jupiter scenario specifies an evolution of giant-planet migration described by the Nice model, in which an ice giant (Uranus, Neptune, or an additional Neptune-mass planet) is scattered inward by Saturn and outward by Jupiter, causing their semi-major axes to jump, and thereby quickly separating their orbits. [1]
For a particle falling in from infinity the left factor equals the right factor, since the in-falling velocity matches the escape velocity in this case. The two constants angular momentum L {\textstyle L} and total energy E {\textstyle E} of a test-particle with mass m {\textstyle m} are in terms of v {\textstyle v}
1.1 Falling into Jupiter. 4 comments. 1.2 Since neutrinos (and dark matter) don't interact with light, so what should happen when light comes across them? 19 comments.
An eccentric Jupiter is a Jovian planet that orbits its star in an eccentric orbit. [1] Eccentric Jupiters may disqualify a planetary system from having Earth-like planets (though not always from having habitable exomoons ) in it, because a massive gas giant with an eccentric orbit may eject all Earth mass exoplanets from the habitable zone ...
Jupiter might have shaped the Solar System on its grand tack. In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near its current orbit at 5.2 AU.