What would happen if Jupiter hit the Sun?

Answer 1

Well for one thing, we'd have to change all those solar system models.

Answer 2

As sad as it seams, it will happen. As the sun gets older it also gets bigger. The sun is expected to eat up the earth in a few billion years. But to get to Jupiter, that will be in its final blast when the hydrogen fuel of the sun runs out. The nuclear fusion process can no longer be supported and the weight of the sun will be too much to support its own weight. A supernova explosion will occur, creating many of the heavy elements that occupy life and sizzle any poor unsuspecting planets in the way, like Jupiter and Saturn. It is hard to say how much of the planet will be cooked, but you will need more than SPF 15+ if you are there to watch.

If you where some kind of mad megalomaniac looking for a new challenge and hooked up a few tow ropes and dragged Jupiter into the sun how it is now then no more Jupiter. The sun would eat it for breakfast and still have room for more.

Answer 3

Since the Sun is many many times more massive and bigger than Jupiter, nothing would happen to the Sun; Jupiter however would be "eaten" by the Sun.

Answer 4

For one thing, its probably IMPOSSIBLE for Jupiter to hit the Sun, but if it did happen, the Sun would just get a little larger, causing temperatures on Earth to rise and maybe destroying Mercury by the Sun swallowing it up.

Answer 5

From observations made in other Planetary Systems as well supporting evidence in current theoretical models we know that when a planet the size of Jupiter (or larger!) comes close to a star, it is not going to fall into it.

Instead, the planet is going to stop migrating (as we say). It will then establish a new stable orbit around the star because of the strong interaction of the two bodies' magnetic fields.

So, no need to worry with doomsday scenarios like this :-)

Answer 6

It wouldn't hit the sun. Before it could make "contact" gravity would pull jupiter apart since it is all gas. Kind of like how Jupiter pulled apart Comet Shumaker-Levy Nine, only it would be much more fluid like. It might impact Earth's orbit as it passed, depending where we were in the ecliptic plane during its passing. It would offset a lot of things along the way. Asteroids, moons, mars, venus, mercury. But my question is, what was the object or force that threw it out of orbit sending it to hurtle into the sun? That would be more devastating to us than Jupiter flying by, don't you think?

Answer 7

If Jupiter hit the sun, Jupiter would blow up, and the impact from the explosion would hit all the planets and probably cause them to hit each other and blow up. The Domino Effect.

Answer 8

Well You can rest assured that we would never see it because all the planets, and every object between Jupiter and the sun would be obliterated, Then Jupiter itself would be evaporated before it ever got close. Then the gravitational balance of the known solar system would be thrown into chaos, with hitherto unknown consequences.

Answer 9

Im giggling. Funny question. Well I predict Jupiter would burn but the sun would probably move further away from us because Jupiter is the largest planet.

Answer 10

Jupiter would melt far before it reaches the sun

Answer 11

Nothing really. Jupiter is so small in comparison to the sun that it really would be like a fly to the sun.