New scientific paper on Jupiter's core

[lajoswinkler]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1470-2

Data supports diffused core caused by ancient enormous impact of a protoplanet - diffusion remains to this day.

[Mitchz95]

The sheer scale of these impacts breaks my brain whenever I think about them.

[Terwin]

27 minutes ago, Mitchz95 said:

The sheer scale of these impacts breaks my brain whenever I think about them.

Just think of it as a failed aerobreaking ... performed by a planetary body

(or a Wackjob landing, as this is huge objects in the distant past)

Edited August 16, 2019 by Terwin
needed a wackjob reference

[Scotius]

During planetogenesis pre-Jupiter was basically the Kraken He rampaged across young Solar system, devouring unlucky planetesimals and throwing lucky ones into wildly perturbed orbits. Good thing nowadays Jupiter is dangerous mostly to comets and odd asteroid every so often.

Edited August 16, 2019 by Scotius

[kerbiloid]

Next step: Big Red is volcano, lol.

[magnemoe]

5 hours ago, Terwin said:

Just think of it as a failed aerobreaking ... performed by a planetary body

(or a Wackjob landing, as this is huge objects in the distant past)

let us name the proto planet Wackjob in respect. KSP killed his laptop after all. 
Early solar system was idiotic violent, our moon was part of it. Mercury is pretty much an planetary core, was it the impactor or did Jupiter eat the bad guy?

And yes Jupiter is the vacuum cleaner, Jupiter sized bodies is rare in exoplanet surveys,  
Likely to be another great filter. 
 

 

[kerbiloid]

The Jovian atmosphere is full of whirls.
They are not stable; appear and disappear.
Are the places where they appear statistically chaotic, or do they form some fixed regular pattern?

[Scotius]

That's 'regular' enough for ya?

Courtesy of Juno probe.

[kerbiloid]

24 minutes ago, Scotius said:

That's 'regular' enough for ya?

I don't know. But what I mean: if the places where the whirls born, are constant, then maybe we can study the Jup's landscape.