Originally posted by baked
What are the chances of Jupiter ever becoming a sun it's self? What would have to happen to spark this?
What would be the effects on the earth of this happend, be it possible?
I read this and it's what got me thinking.
impossible. not enough mass or gasses.
Originally posted by insite
Didn't NASA crash a probe/explorer module into Jupiter last year? I remember reading about it on ATS, something about how the illuminati were trying
to fulfill a prophecy or something like that.
correct, the gallieo probe. we no longer had use for it, it had well overlived what it was expected to do, and it's nuclear reactor was at ends. i
dunno about any illuminati scheme though, but i would highly doubt that.
FOR EVERYONE'S INFO:
jupiter is a gas giant, which you all know. it's day is roughly 10 hours. at that speeds the centrifigal forces cause the gases to swirl around and
relayer. if you sat and watched jupiter for ten hours, say from red spot in the middle to the same position again, everything would look drastically
changed. even watching jupiter for a few hours you would see changes. it's a brutal, incredibly windy planet.
and because i'm bored and feel like being a nerd:
distance from the sun: 5.2 AU (48,000,000 miles)
diameter: 88,850 miles
mass: 1.9 x 10^27 kg
day: 9 hours, 55 minutes
year: 4,332 days on earth (almost 12 earth years)
temperature: -250 F (i say surface because it's been theoriezed that do to extreme pressures inside the temperature soars into
diameter: 864,000 miles (a dwarf star)
mass: 2 x 10^30 Kg
surface temperature: 5,800 K
core temperature: 16,000,000 K
class: G2 V (more any of you who know how to read an HR diagram, of course, then you would probably know what that means.
EDIT: just realized today that i didn't put in the end quote text up there... so i fixed that.
[Edited on 3/9/2004 by cmdrkeenkid]