Planet Jupiter. The largest planet in our solar system is at the center of an announcement that lit up the entire Internet, and scared some people who fear that something like this could happen on Earth. According to NASA researchers, the planet Jupiter was hit by another planet billions of years ago, yes, you read that right, an impact with another planet took place in the past.
Planet Jupiter. The revelation comes from the Juno probe, sent by NASA researchers to the planet a few years ago, and this completely changes everything we knew about this celestial body. The impact would have taken place about 4.5 billion years ago, when the planet Jupiter was still forming, and the planet that hit it would have been smaller, otherwise it would have destroyed it completely, instead of forming it in terms of what we see today
Planet Jupiter. HALLUCINANT announcement that SHOOK the Internet
Planet Jupiter. The collision with that unknown planet explains some of the unusual gravity records of the celestial body, suggesting that its core is not as dense as researchers expected. On the other hand, the core on the planet Jupiter would be more extensive, the celestial body being at first full of work and completely frozen, but after the collision the atmosphere was filled with the gas that looks so unusual.
"Because it's dense and coming in with a lot of energy, the impactor would be like a bullet going through the atmosphere and hitting head on. Before the impact, you have a very dense core surrounded by the atmosphere. Frontal impact spreads things out, diluting the core. The only scenario that resulted in a core density profile similar to what Juno is measuring today is a head-on impact with a planetary embryo about 10 times more massive than Earth."
Planet Jupiter. You can see in the video clip above an animation on how the impact would have affected the celestial body, its core, and the way it was formed, the explanations being very interesting. The researchers also say that the planet that collided with the planet Jupiter would have been swallowed slowly by the core of the latter, but if something similar happened now, the planets would be disintegrated by the very dense atmosphere.
Planet Jupiter. What hit the celestial body 4.5 billion years ago would have a diameter about 10 times larger than that of the current Earth, so we are talking about an event of very large proportions.
