SciShow Space: Jupiter Is a Jerk… and Also Our Friend

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: The largest planet in our solar system is no stranger to throwing its weight around, both to our benefit and detriment here on Earth. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org Host: Caitlin Hofmeister ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/ https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/51/6/6.16/216768 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/how-historic-jupiter-comet-impact-led-to-planetary-defense https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/p-shoemaker-levy-9/in-depth/ https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/overview https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/faq https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/totals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html https://www.space.com/33527-how-fast-is-earth-moving.html https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/31dc/a839aec2425dc0e14c768ccad6d1c3981510.pdf?_ga=2.256114383.513380350.1577292169-1073451122.1577292169 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/490/3/4388/5586606 https://www.space.com/nasa-centaur-missions-centaurus-chimera.html?fbclid=IwAR016ZHRqul3dx9gAzVFdqsA6gnOJTvTTQY-9lEWJhl_K7T_ZfjLvC1gz7I https://futurism.com/meet-solar-systems-mysterious-centaurs https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328161161_The_threat_of_Centaurs_for_terrestrial_planets_and_their_orbital_evolution_as_impactors https://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-comet-hale-bopp https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jupiter-destroyer-of-worlds-may-have-paved-the-way-for-earth/ https://www.space.com/37135-comets-life-building-blocks-earth-rosetta.html https://aasnova.org/2018/08/22/has-anyone-found-a-lost-comet/ ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_System_Objects_in_Scale.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/multimedia/largest/SL9_scars.jpg.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997_hires_adj.jpg


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