Jupiter

Originally posted by tomtom232
I also like Uranus. But that's clearly for another thread.

Originally posted by divegeester
Sometimes people are like planets. Although I'd prefer not to be uranus.

Originally posted by jimslyp69
I read somewhere that the main constituent of Uranus's atmosphere is methane😀

I also read that Jupiter and Saturn can swap satellites if they become close enough. Is this substantiated anywhere. I've tried google but cannot find anything.

Originally posted by jimslyp69
I read somewhere that the main constituent of Uranus's atmosphere is methane😀

I also read that Jupiter and Saturn can swap satellites if they become close enough. Is this substantiated anywhere. I've tried google but cannot find anything.

Originally posted by Policestate
You don't need Google, you need a sad little geek who read this stuff while all his school friends developed their social skills.

So now I'm here, I'll tell you it is pretty damn unlikely. At their closest orbit, Saturn is 325 million miles from Jupiter. The average moon/satellite is about half a million miles from its planet - with some exceptions. ...[text shortened]... llite swapping territory. Our moon is about 240 thousand miles from us, to give some context.

I say posters are like planets, and not everyone is a uranus...

Originally posted by Policestate
Plus, these are BIG planets, not likely to give their gravitational pull up for the price of a hamburger.
Jupiter vs one of the small rocky planets, and a lesser distance between them, and maybe, just maybe......

I think the OP had something else in mind - perhaps the RHP galaxy of stars ...

Originally posted by divegeester
Massive is its gaseous bloated volume, which could easily swallow all the other planets of our system. Blinded by it hugeness it struggles to gain more and more critical mass to become a new second sun in our little solar empire.

It hangs in space, its big red spot of storming tumultuous gas and hot air, slowly navigating its way around the planets' ...[text shortened]... cruel impacts with its huge and irresistible gravitational pull.

Ominous. Present. Jupiter?

Jupiter was very clear the other night, just below an almost full moon & to the right. I could see three of its satellites or moons. One at 3 o'clock, the other at 9 o' clock very brightly lit, the other was down and in front at about 7 o'clock at a different lens magnification. I read that was visible on the East coast of N. America. & it wouldn't occur again until 2019. There is another bright planet just before dawn in the Northern sky, I think it's Venus. Both planets could be seen with the naked eye, the moons took a telescope to see.

Though I still haven't seen the rings around Uranus.

Originally posted by divegeester
Massive is its gaseous bloated volume, which could easily swallow all the other planets of our system. Blinded by it hugeness it struggles to gain more and more critical mass to become a new second sun in our little solar empire.

It hangs in space, its big red spot of storming tumultuous gas and hot air, slowly navigating its way around the planets' ...[text shortened]... cruel impacts with its huge and irresistible gravitational pull.

Ominous. Present. Jupiter?

Originally posted by divegeester
I say posters are like planets, and not everyone is a uranus...

Originally posted by coquette
I'm not so sure that Jupiter protects us. It might accelerate some comet or meteor in our direction utlimately leading to the end of all life on the planet as we know it. This may be happening even now, with the comet or meteor on a trajectory to strike our planet right now, with but a few weeks or months of life left. The death might be horrible. We may di ...[text shortened]... Now I'm worrying about this. Is Jupiter a blessing or a curse? Which one is it? Just kidding.

Originally posted by Palynka
How many hints do you think they'll need?