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Question

As we all know that earth revolves around sun and so as all other planets. But what happens if jupitar's gravity diverts earth's path and forces earth to revolve around itself (Jupitar). Because if i am not wrong then Jupitar has got planets almost similar to size of earth.

Answer 1

Jupiter is too far away to have that effect, plus the sun's mass is much greater.

I suppose in theory, if we were close enough, we could be one of Jupiter's moons - but we're not, so it won't happen.

Also, bear in mind that Jupiter does not emit the same amount of heat and energy as the sun, so Earth would become very barren, very quickly.

Answer 2

Our orbit is already affected by the mass of all the other planets (especially Jupiter). However, because the Sun's attraction is so much more powerfull, our orbit around the Sun is pretty stable (at least for many billions of years).

Still, our orbital path is somewhat altered by the effect of the other planets. I am not talking of the eccentricity: the fact that our orbit is an ellipse. Every years, we pass through a point closest to the Sun (perihelion, around January 3) and a point furthest from the Sun (aphelion, around July 7).

The astronomical unit can be seen as the "average" mean distance between Earth and the Sun, over many years. However, each year, the mean distance for that year does change a little, some years a tiny bit bigger, some years a tiny bit smaller that the long term average. That is due to the effect of the other planets.

From 2007 to 2008, our mean distance from the Sun will change by approx. 500 km. We are presently closer than the "average" mean (by approx 2000 km) and we are moving away from the Sun.

This is a small effect if you consider that our mean distance from the Sun is approximately 150,000,000 km.

Jupiter's biggest satellites are a bit bigger than our Moon; they are nowhere close to being as big as the Earth.

Answer 3

The earth would lose it's classificaton as a planet like Pluto did (He got robbed!!). It is not poosible for the earth to move that far from the sun and maintain an independent orbit around Jupiter and not the sun. The largest moon is Ganymede which is larger than the Earth's moon but not as big as the Earth.

Answer 4

The planets are in stable orbits and have been for billions of years. Jupiter is roughly 4 times further from us than the sun and the sun has roughly 1000 Jupiter masses. That means Jupiter's gravitational effect on the earth is 16,000 times smaller than the sun. There's no way it's going to happen.

Answer 5

There are too many different scenarios to try to give an answer here. The minimal damage result would still be the extinction of most life on Earth. The transition from Solar orbit to Jupiter orbit would result in tremendous earthquakes and might tear the Earth apart.

Answer 6

Jupiter doesn't have any gravitational authority over us. We have the Earth which is 150,000,000 km away from the sun and 1,250,000,000 km away from Jupiter which is 1/13th of the size, I think the Sun will win.

Answer 7

OK we become a going around it and the sun.
The sun however is the big winner in our solor system and even the big gas gaints have to live by its gravitational pull.

Answer 8

I like your thinking there...but Jupiter is far too far away from Earth and the Sun's gravity wouldn'y let Jupiter's gravity to 'suck us in its orbit'. It's like they equalise each-other.

Answer 9

We already know how many moons Jupiter has and their size, none are as big as the earth. Sure, a moon our size could have existed, but it doesn't.

Answer 10

it cant as each planet has a pull and the sun has a greater pull theres more chance of being pulled into the sun