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The alien world of Jupiter is at a distance of 588 million km from our earth. But despite such a huge distance, astronomers believe that the gravity of the gas giant is so strong that it deflects comets and asteroids that could hit our planet. Jupiter’s gravity is 2.5 times greater than that of Earth – in the 1990s, its power tore the comet Shoemaker-Levy and pulled the fragments of a comet to the planet. She is strong enough to change the orbits of asteroids and turn them into their 64 moons. Now new research has shed light on this strong gravitational attraction: perhaps it affected the Earth’s climate and, in its turn, created billions of years ago the conditions necessary for prosperity of life on our planet. In a study conducted by astrophysicists from the University of New South Wales and from London Queen’s University, miscalculated various computer models of our solar system. For each of the iterations, the planets in The solar system remained in place, while Jupiter moved in various orbits, from circular to elliptical. Scientists also moved the entire orbit of Jupiter closer or farther from the sun to check how these changes affect our The earth. Each stage of the simulation covered a period of a million years, with every 100 years, the Earth’s position was recorded as a result of the influence of Jupiter. According to Elizabeth Howell’s report published in Astrobiology Magazine, while orbit changes Jupiter led to small changes in the orbit and inclination of the Earth, the impact on Earth’s climate remained unclear. However, in a previous study by the same research group was found that the position of Jupiter has a striking effect on the climate of our planet. Now the team expects to return to more early work to resolve the inconsistency. Realizing how gas giants affect climate in other worlds, researchers hope to narrow the search for other inhabited planets beyond the solar system.
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