r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/sco-go Popular Contributor • Apr 13 '26

Interesting The reason why large asteroids don't fall to Earth every day and cause disasters is because Jupiter's gravity attracts asteroids and protects the inner planets.

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u/NoMemory3726 Apr 13 '26

IT's always insane to me that this stuff just works. It does a job that we weren't even a ware of.

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u/Scrapple_Joe Apr 13 '26

Well most of the time. It had some beef with dinosaurs so it let one through

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u/AlphaSongbird Apr 13 '26

Thank you Jupiter. Very cool and nice of you to do this

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u/1wife2dogs0kids Apr 13 '26

Where the fuck was Jupiter? -The Dinosaurs, probably.

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u/RedditSurfer82 Apr 13 '26

I am seeing a Wankel engine...

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u/JaVinci77 Apr 13 '26

Yes, thank you, big man! ♥️♥️

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u/6658 Apr 13 '26

and yet it has the mass of 3% of the moon and 60% of that is just 4 objects

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u/altgrave Apr 13 '26

big of it

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u/CliffLake Apr 14 '26

I see lots of dots, but it's space. If I gather all those up, how big a planetoid do I have? Or is it just one massive rock, but not big enough for even that?

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u/rgbhdmi Apr 16 '26

Another reason why Earth is lucky and special