What Would Be The Effect Of A Collision Between The Earth And Jupiter?
333We do not even want to try to pass off everything we are about to tell as a true, possible, or even probable story.
Let's say it right now, it will never happen that the Earth could collide with Jupiter.
Not even in a million years, maybe not even in a billion years...
But here we are in the world of "what if...", where we only give importance to the description of what could happen, without asking too many questions about how we could have arrived at such an unlikely situation.
But let's not go too far... It's okay not to ask too many questions, but a little logical justification has to be invented first, right?
How could it be that the Earth would suddenly derail from its orbit and put itself on a collision course with Jupiter?
Well, something similar happened in the first 10 million years of the solar system's existence, when the giant planets were still running around doing damage. Jupiter moved toward the Sun, wiping out the first generation of inner planets, then returned to outer orbits after the birth of Saturn, allowing the subsequent formation of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
In short, we are used to the idea of an orderly and peaceful solar system, but in the beginning, it was really chaotic!
Could this happen again?
Currently, the planets in the solar system continue to interact gravitationally with each other, but without any short-term destabilizing effects. So much so that things could remain stable for billions of years, barring any outside intrusion.
The apocalyptic scenario, however, could be triggered by the close passage of a wandering star capable of perturbing the gravity of the last planet in our system and upsetting its current equilibrium.
Calculations have shown that a passing star could go so far as to destabilize - on astronomical timescales - even the orbits of the inner planets.
In about three thousand simulations, the most unlikely scenarios occurred, with multiple collisions between Mercury and Venus, between Mercury and Mars, and even between Mercury and Earth. Other scenarios even lead to the ejection of Mercury and Earth from the solar system.
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