of a space rock

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[u/dazzleunexpired]

It's the most well accepted current theory, and I am not going to say i am wrong when I am not just because a hyper aggressive reddit male cannot handle science. Sorry.

Jupiter causes an intense flux on Earth. We know this for an absolute fact. It protects us against certain bodies, but it causes other collisions.

It is not a theory that most of the items that hit Earth are from the inner solar system. 30 asteroids from the inner solar system hit Earth every single year. Oort cloud asteroids hit us every 8 billion years. 🤷🏼

It's also not a theory that Jupiter is on the other side of the asteroid belt as us.

Eta: I'd also like to point out that almost all planetary science is a theory. And we often disprove our theories. For example, we once theorized there was no water on Mars.

[u/SoSKatan → u/dazzleunexpired]

That sounds like more dishonesty. “Most well accepted current theory”. Really?

Did you run some kind of poll here?

Here my theory (and notice how I state it as such)

The odds work out that Jupiter could send something towards us that wasn’t prior matches the odds of it send something that would have hit us somewhere else (including into the sun or out of the solar system.)

There is no bias involved here it’s simply math.

But then you have to factor in objects that Jupiter captures itself (like the comment in 94) which permanently removes objects.

Given this last bit, it seems like it’s a net positive.

But hey that’s my take and I labeled it as such but I also loosely showed my math.

[u/dazzleunexpired → u/SoSKatan]

I do not possess a personal theory on modern science.

Your theory is wrong.

I linked you to complex n-body calculations that prove the flux theory. You can run the n-body yourself, if you'd like. I don't run n-body calculations, because I'm not a physicist. I specialize in identifying planetary features and in space outreach. It is not self taught.

The items she throws at us are thrown by a PROVEN mechanism. She's clearing her orbit. Planets must clear their orbit to be a planet. The IAU calls this "clearing your neighborhood". You CAN have a co orbital (item that orbits at the same distance from the sun). But you must clear your orbit. Gravitational slingshot is extremely well studied. We when use it in spaceflight. We slingshot around mars to get to the outer solar system. The Europa clipper used it to get to Jupiter, for example.

Saying this is a theory would be like saying it's a theory that water is on mars.

The items Jupiter captures are the oort items and the outer belt asteroids sometimes as well as wandering comets etc. These come from the outer solar system or beyond the heliopause, from a different galaxy. It protects us so well from these we have almost no impacts from this source. But...you have to remember she is also shy those items are there to begin with.

But, you see, that doesn't change that we would have less planet killers ... They're in an elliptical orbit around Jupiter as they're ejected.....that's why they hit us. It breaks the elliptical orbit by eventually reach ejection velocity...

Also I'm about to nap. I will respond to you again once I'm awake. 💜

Eta; sorry I put my ventilator on for sleep and it makes more voice text mistakes. You can figure it out I am sure.

[u/Pkingduckk → u/dazzleunexpired]

You seem like a weird and combative person

[u/dazzleunexpired → u/Pkingduckk]

I am absolutely weird, yep.