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He looks like a jovial fella.
Spending time with him is just a gas!
Jupiter has a huge influence in the Solarsystem, the big gravitation of Jupiter and also the Sun can deflect most of the asteroids and Comets from the Earth orbit, but in certain circumstances can do the opposite and launch objects into Earth’s orbit, depending on what angle they enter the system…
A good example is Apophis (∅~370 m), which is coming to visit us in 2029, although at quite a distance, but it will return in Abril 2036 and in this case, if it passes through a certain point there is a possibility that it will impact the Earth…
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
Simulate an impact where ever you want and see the consecuences scrolling down the results.
Oh, ok, it will target New York, the movies were right!
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The White House is also a good target. Maybe also the Coronado Naval Base
What a great & optimal design for actual humans to live and work - it would have been cheaper to make a square building with giant floors and a fraction of the windows (and far less natural light for inhabitants).
They prob left the remaining sides free to not infringe on MS Windows logo trademark.And H designs are just somehow aesthetically unpleasing to me personally (for real).
optimal design for actual humans to live and work
And H designs are just somehow aesthetically unpleasing to me personally (for real).
Because I agree with those points I resigned it by flipping the edges:
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Do we have ways/plans to prevent the potential hit or is it a “we will see” thing?
There are several plans to avoid it, but it depends of several factors. We can avoid an impact if we know the exact position several Years before the supposed impact, if not, there is nothing we can do.
Childhood fear suddenly resurfaced.
Watch Don’t Look Up. It’s about an asteroid heading for earth in our current political climate
Jupiter is doing a terrible job at protecting us from meteorites. Just ask the dinosaurs.
I asked mine, she said “pretty bird?”. She’s right.
According to one of the newer Kurzgesagt videos, it may not be a meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs!
It was Dave, wasn’t it? That guy is such a fuck up!
That’s a p good batting average tbh
Explain to me, how is Jupiter deflecting a significant number of asteroids if it can only be in one place at any one time and its orbit is nearly 12 years long? Wouldn’t asteroids have a huge window to get past it while it’s on the other side of the sun?
I dont know for sure, but its likely to do with the fact that the asteroids orbit the sun too. Even if the asteroid is coming in on the other side of the sun from jupiter, it has to orbit the sun in order get there in the first, meaning there’s a good chance it gets caught by jupiter before it can get close
