the trigger would have to be pressure sensative so that when it becomes a given weight from the atmospheric pressure the bomb explodes. suppose we built a really big atomic bomb, bigger than ever made. and just launched it into a huge ball of gas consisting of mostly hydrogen? what happens when an H-bomb goes off inside a big ball of hydrogen?
can we start a chain fussion reaction causing jupiter to become a new tiny star? wouldn't that be cool?
2007-01-27 17:14:05 · 10 answers · asked by brandon 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
there would be a nuclear explosion on jupiter, duh. isn't that obvious?
2007-01-29 16:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by JizZ E. Jizzy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Massive explosions have already taken place on Jupiter, when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed to the planet in pieces in July of 2004. Some of the pieces were more than 1 km in diameter, and the largest single explosion in the series actually had a magnitude equal to about 750 times the entire nuclear arsenal of the world. These explosions produced fireballs that were visible from earth-based telescopes, and yielded scars that remained visible on the surface of Jupiter for months. But it did not ignite Jupiter as a star; there is no known mechanism that can induce nuclear fusion in a body that is not sufficiently massive to sustain it, and Jupiter is not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion.
2007-01-27 17:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yeah nothing really at all would happen. The biggest explosion on Jupiter from the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet was estimated at the equivalent of 6 Teratons of TNT, Thats 6,000,000 Megatons. Thats around 300,000,000 Hiroshima bombs! The biggest nuke in the US arsenal at the moment is 8 Megatons...i think we could throw everything we had at it and it wouldnt matter at all!
2007-01-27 17:38:43 · answer #3 · answered by Beach_Bum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
till mars or earth like planets collided with Jupiter then it has impact. in case you multiply one thousand situations what ever the nukes earth has and drop it on jupiter no longer something will take place to it.
2016-12-16 15:19:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All you would get is a brief flash of light, it doesn't have enough mass to become a star, and a chain reaction would not be sustained, either.
2007-01-27 17:53:49 · answer #5 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing if it detanates near the surface. but if somehow you could get that bomb to the core of the gas giant, then you might be able to acheive some serious explosion
2007-01-28 04:23:26 · answer #6 · answered by smokesha 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Richard Pryor's face lit up like that. I doubt anything would happen at all.
2007-01-27 17:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It will be like farting in a hurricane.
2007-01-27 17:56:40 · answer #8 · answered by Stan the Rocker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing..
2007-01-27 17:22:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
almost nothing
2007-01-27 17:19:32 · answer #10 · answered by anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋