Could Jupiter withstand an impact with Earth?

Answer 1

The answers above are all spot on (Jupiter outmasses the earth 300 to 1).

However, if one were to accelerate the earth to a sufficiently high speed, you could splash part of the Jovian core clean out of the solar system.

Or, with a little clever spinning, you could make multiple passes with the earth to retard Jupiter's orbit to the point it would just about decay into the sun. A proper impact at that critical juncture could cause it to calve or get swallowed. This latter scenario would require lots and lots of passes, and neither of these are, of course, very likely.

A third, less likely possibility yet would be to convert the earth to antimatter, then drop it into Jupiter. The result would appear from the vantage point of Andromeda to be a supernova. The collision would briefly outshine the rest of the stars in our galaxy combined.

Answer 2

Jupiter could survive an impact by the earth,it would sure rough it up a bit but the tides would eventually abate and the Jovians would go on their merry ways.

Answer 3

Since it would take several Earths just to fill the Great Red Spot, that leads be to believe that Jupiter would not hardly feel a thing.

Answer 4

I could go more into detail, but I agree the first is correct. Jupiter is a gas planet and the gases would cushion the earth, but running into J's atmosphere could rip ours off, joining with Jupiter's air and gassing us to death.

Answer 5

Of course it could, Jupiter's junior storm is the size of Earth, and its largest two times our size, so it definitly could withstand an impact considoring how small we are.

Answer 6

yeah. to Jupiter it would just be another fart in the wind. but it would mean armageddon for earth