jupiter and the sun?

Question

as Jupiter is a big ball of gas and the Sun is hot...

what if Jupiter was in Mercurys position, would the planet blow up ?

Answer 1

If Jupiter were suddenly relocated to a closer vicinity of the sun the following would probably take place: The outer atmosphere would heat up, expand, and start to "outgas". The solar wind would blow those gasses away. The lower atmosphere, which is cooler and denser, would do likewise as the outermost layers outgassed. Over time this process would work itself deeper and deeper. At some point under the planet's surface, the atmosphere becomes liquid....which would start to boil off as a gas and expand. Deeper yet, the liquid is slush. This would also become all liquid and eventually boil off. Under this layer the gases are frozen as ices. They would melt, boil off expand and outgas.

Somewhere deep near the core the planet it rocky underwhich may be hydrogen...as metallic hydrogen due to the tremendous pressures. With the overburden removed from the planet, the hydrogen would quickly change state and the core expand rapidly enough to eject the rocky crust. At the end would probably be a ring of debris in orbit around the sun.

Answer 2

We have actually found evidence of planets much larger than Jupiter and closer to their parent star than mercury is to the sun. These new planets are actually called hot Jupiters. These planets would be much hotter than mercury yet they seem to be stable. Possibly jupiter would be stable too in mercurys orbit. It depends on whether Jupiter would get hot enough for its atmospheric gasses to reach escape velocity and rush off into space. Hot or not. Jupiter still has a pretty good gravitational pull. The planet wouldn´t just blow up though.

Answer 3

I think most of the popular astronomy ideas in cirulation today are pure jive; like jupiter being a ball of gas...for one what does gas do at absolute zero which is where jup. is at? Frozen right? Mercury is probably almost liquid. Aparantly, the polar temp. at venus is 800 f., the temp. glass blowers begin anealing at, where they have completed the forming process and start the final cool-down.

Answer 4

hey robertj, where do you get your information from, Cliff Claven? Jupiter's temperature is no where near absolute zero. It is 24,000 K (43,000 F) at the core and ranges from 112 K to 165 K in the dense atmosphere. That! is no where near absolute zero!

Answer 5

It would be a lot warmer and most of the gas would probably have been pushed away by the solar wind.

Answer 6

I would imagine so...only if its flammable gas, but since they dont know what exactly the athmosphere is compose of I couldnt tell you.