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Why You Should Thank Jupiter
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25.03.2015
It turns out that Jupiter may be more than just an enormous ball of gas spinning a few hundred million miles farther out in the solar system.
We earthlings might have the giant planet to thank for our very existence.
Aaccording to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two scientists are suggesting that the inner solar system once played host to a bunch of "super-Earths" -- planets that were larger than our own but smaller than Neptune. Jupiter, however, put an end to those early occupiers of the inner orbits, bulldozing in and sweeping them into the sun.
We earthlings might have the giant planet to thank for our very existence.
Aaccording to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two scientists are suggesting that the inner solar system once played host to a bunch of "super-Earths" -- planets that were larger than our own but smaller than Neptune. Jupiter, however, put an end to those early occupiers of the inner orbits, bulldozing in and sweeping them into the sun.
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