I’ve always liked the idea that Jupiter has acted like a protector to its little brother, Earth.
That it has used its massive gravitational pull to divert asteroids and comets from a collision course with Earth.
Maybe Jupiter even felt bad when one got through, and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction. But a new study has cast this idea into doubt.
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