r/spaceporn • u/MorningStar_imangi • Mar 04 '23

10 Days of Venus and Jupiter Pro/Composite

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Pfew... I thought they was gonna crash.

That was close.

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u/TJPrime_ Mar 04 '23

It’d be catastrophically devastating, but it’d also be so cool to watch two planets collide

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u/tildraev Mar 04 '23

This got me thinking- What effects would a collision have had on earth?

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u/yoloswagrofl Mar 04 '23

I don’t think it would effect us much unless debris from the collision was sent our way. Then we might need to call Bruce Willis.

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u/TJPrime_ Mar 04 '23

There’d be so much debris we’d need him on speed dial

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u/DogsRule_TheUniverse Mar 05 '23

It’d be catastrophically devastating, but it’d also be so cool to watch two planets collide.

I have a feeling Jupiter would eat it up like it was a little snack. The diameter of Jupiter is nearly 12 times larger than Venus. Add to the fact that Jupiter is a gas giant and as such, I doubt you would see any kind of stuff "colliding" per se. I'm sure some parts of it would - but the gas clouds on Jupiter would make it very difficult to see anything.

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u/TJPrime_ Mar 05 '23

With how fast a planet would have to hit Jupiter, given it’s gravity, hitting the Jovian atmosphere would be like bellyflopping into a swimming pool - fairly blunt object hitting a fluid. Not to mention the heat that would be generated from the sudden atmospheric compression. And that’s assuming a rocky planet hits a gas giant - seeing two gas giants or two rocky planets collide would be… interesting, to put it as mildly as linguistically possible

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u/kargaz Mar 04 '23

Happy cake day!