Originally posted by jimslyp69You don't need Google, you need a sad little geek who read this stuff while all his school friends developed their social skills.
I read somewhere that the main constituent of Uranus's atmosphere is methane😀
I also read that Jupiter and Saturn can swap satellites if they become close enough. Is this substantiated anywhere. I've tried google but cannot find anything.
So now I'm here, I'll tell you it is pretty damn unlikely. At their closest orbit, Saturn is 325 million miles from Jupiter. The average moon/satellite is about half a million miles from its planet - with some exceptions.
325 million miles is WAY past satellite swapping territory. Our moon is about 240 thousand miles from us, to give some context.
Originally posted by PolicestatePlus, these are BIG planets, not likely to give their gravitational pull up for the price of a hamburger.
You don't need Google, you need a sad little geek who read this stuff while all his school friends developed their social skills.
So now I'm here, I'll tell you it is pretty damn unlikely. At their closest orbit, Saturn is 325 million miles from Jupiter. The average moon/satellite is about half a million miles from its planet - with some exceptions. ...[text shortened]... llite swapping territory. Our moon is about 240 thousand miles from us, to give some context.
Jupiter vs one of the small rocky planets, and a lesser distance between them, and maybe, just maybe......
Originally posted by PolicestateYeah. ENough to pull your under wear straight down 😲
Plus, these are BIG planets, not likely to give their gravitational pull up for the price of a hamburger.
Jupiter vs one of the small rocky planets, and a lesser distance between them, and maybe, just maybe......
Thanks for putting things into context dude 🙂
Jupiter was very clear the other night, just below an almost full moon & to the right. I could see three of its satellites or moons. One at 3 o'clock, the other at 9 o' clock very brightly lit, the other was down and in front at about 7 o'clock at a different lens magnification. I read that was visible on the East coast of N. America. & it wouldn't occur again until 2019. There is another bright planet just before dawn in the Northern sky, I think it's Venus. Both planets could be seen with the naked eye, the moons took a telescope to see.
Though I still haven't seen the rings around Uranus.
Originally posted by coquetteIn around 2 billion years the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide providing an end or an end and a new beginning or a light show for us. Jupiter is my favorite planet. One of 3 planets in our solar system which contain water (that we know of).
I'm not so sure that Jupiter protects us. It might accelerate some comet or meteor in our direction utlimately leading to the end of all life on the planet as we know it. This may be happening even now, with the comet or meteor on a trajectory to strike our planet right now, with but a few weeks or months of life left. The death might be horrible. We may di ...[text shortened]... Now I'm worrying about this. Is Jupiter a blessing or a curse? Which one is it? Just kidding.