Astrophysicist Reveals Planet That Could End Life on Earth

Solar System Montage Rosette Nebula

This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula. The light emitted from the Rosette Nebula results from the presence of hydrogen (red), oxygen (green), and sulfur (blue). Most of the planetary images in this montage were obtained by NASA’s planetary missions, which have dramatically changed our understanding of the solar system in the past 30 years. Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Experiment demonstrates our solar system’s fragility.

A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a University of California, Riverside (UCR) experiment.

UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane explained that his experiment was meant to address two notable gaps in planetary science.

The first is the gap in our solar system between the size of terrestrial and giant gas planets. The largest terrestrial planet is Earth, and the smallest gas giant is Neptune, which is four times wider and 17 times more massive than Earth. There is nothing in between.

Solar System Planets Size Comparison

This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets in our Solar System relative to each other. Outward from the Sun, the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, followed by the dwarf planet Pluto. Jupiter’s diameter is about 11 times that of the Earth’s and the Sun’s diameter is about 10 times Jupiter’s. Pluto’s diameter is slightly less than one-fifth of Earth’s. The planets are not shown at the appropriate distance from the Sun. Credit: NASA/Lunar and Planetary Institute

“In other star systems, there are many planets with masses in that gap. We call them super-Earths,” Kane said.

The other gap is in location, relative to the sun, between Mars and Jupiter. “Planetary scientists often wish there was something in between those two planets. It seems like wasted real estate,” he said.

These gaps could offer important insights into the architecture of our solar system, and into Earth’s evolution. To fill them in, Kane ran dynamic computer simulations of a planet between Mars and Jupiter with a range of different masses, and then observed the effects on the orbits of all other planets.

The results, published in the Planetary Science Journal, were mostly disastrous for the solar system. “This fictional planet gives a nudge to Jupiter that is just enough to destabilize everything else,” Kane said. “Despite many astronomers having wished for this extra planet, it’s a good thing we don’t have it.”

Exoplanet Kepler-62f Super Earth Planet

Artist’s concept of Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet orbiting a star smaller and cooler than the sun, about 1,200 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle

Jupiter is much larger than all the other planets combined; its mass is 318 times that of Earth, so its gravitational influence is profound. If a super-Earth in our solar system, a passing star, or any other celestial object disturbed Jupiter even slightly, all other planets would be profoundly affected.

Depending on the mass and exact location of a super-Earth, its presence could ultimately eject Mercury and Venus as well as Earth from the solar system. It could also destabilize the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, tossing them into outer space as well.

The super-Earth would change the shape of this Earth’s orbit, making it far less habitable than it is today, if not ending life entirely.

If Kane made the planet’s mass smaller and put it directly in between Mars and Jupiter, he saw it was possible for the planet to remain stable for a long period of time. But small moves in any direction and, “things would go poorly,” he said.

The study has implications for the ability of planets in other solar systems to host life. Though Jupiter-like planets, gas giants far from their stars, are only found in about 10% of the time, their presence could decide whether neighboring Earths or super-Earths have stable orbits.

These results gave Kane a renewed respect for the delicate order that holds the planets together around the sun. “Our solar system is more finely tuned than I appreciated before. It all works like intricate clock gears. Throw more gears into the mix and it all breaks,” Kane said.

Reference: “The Dynamical Consequences of a Super-Earth in the Solar System” by Stephen R. Kane, 28 February 2023, Planetary Science Journal.
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acbb6b

18 Comments on "Astrophysicist Reveals Planet That Could End Life on Earth"

  1. These guys really have a Columbus complex. They’ve discovered (peeped) a new world, but were still in Asia. 50 years of extreme hubris. Disney’s (and Metaverse’s) fantasizing is better. Bless dem kids. As always, Scitech throws in a few very useful factoids. Really bless THEM.

  2. Steve Daniels | March 8, 2023 at 6:49 am | Reply

    THIS JUST IN. IF A BLACK HOLE DEVELOPED NEXT TO MARS. THE EARTH WOULD GET SUCKED IN AND DESTROYED. Now here’s Tom with the weather.

  3. Your headline is misleading. It sounds like the astrophysicist actually discovered a planet that could harm Earth. #journalism101

  4. Nobody knows when we will enjoy our new earth. only our creator knows.

  5. david w. ferrin | March 8, 2023 at 5:29 pm | Reply

    SO, a planet was used in the space between mars and jupiter, they found the orbit was unstable to the system, but, they made the planet’s mass smaller and put it directly in between Mars and Jupiter, he saw it was possible for the planet to remain stable for a long period of time, So what is the asteroid belt ?

  6. Astronomers waste time resources in persuit of impossible discoveries. GOD, yes GOD created life on Earth within defined astronomical parameters. Life cannot exist if the Earth orbit were different. Planets in our solar system have the role of providing gravitational balance so that the Sun 🌞 wouldn’t attract Earth and the other planets and suck them. In the outer space there’s a limit of what we can say that planets or stars exist because all the pictures we can get from the telescopes are thousands and millions of light years old which implies that the planets or stars may have vanished during this laps of time. Why do they pretend to be looking for the origins of the universe at the time we cannot travel to the nearest planet. It is absurd to talk about inhabiting other planets since we know that life is impossible on other planets. Or is just a way to find an occupation?? If astronomers say that Earth is in existence since millions of years why then should we worry about collisions and the end to life?? I don’t think GOD took the trouble to create life as we know it on planet Earth and have it destroyed after all His trouble. We still have no idea why GOD created life and probably never will. But one fact remains and it’s that the end is not in the foreseeable future. After all Heaven and Hell exist only in our imagination.

    • There is not one shred of verifiable evidence for any gods nor a proposed methodology to obtain any. You’re using a logical fallacy called ‘argument from incredulity’ to justify your claim of “god did it.” Logical fallacies are invalid by definition.

  7. GOD is the creator of the universe. Just look at yourself. Man is the most complicated piece of engineering. Then look at the laws of the universe and what we discover every day. Do you think life is a result of an accident ?? If you study life on Earth and the whole universe you will understand that someone created all this. This is GOD and please understand that I am not talking about the false gods like jesus christ… or the god of israel. There’s only one GOD and HE is the creator of the universe.

    • Andrew Holland | March 13, 2023 at 11:16 am | Reply

      You may want to discover that GOD could be a she or both. No one knows what or who GOD is. But one thing is clear, GOD IS.

  8. “You’re using a logical fallacy called ‘argument from incredulity’….”

    Funny, I never heard of that one–unless it goes by a different name.

  9. James Girhinji | March 10, 2023 at 3:32 am | Reply

    It is not important who created the universe or even when it was created. ..We have a higher consciousness than other leaving creatures. ..just relax and be part of the whole and let everything be.We are just like a wave of ocean. .let the wave remain a wave and just be part of the ocean…It is an ocean with a wave,not a wave with an ocean.

  10. There are two creators a He and a She and if we all dont start giving them both the credit that they absolutely deserve then who knows what their next projects may or may not include yourselfs…. There is a reason for this artical its not useless knowledge just like NASA never a straight answer…. Somethings about to happen and its going to be BIG and just like your creators created earth and every galaxy in their universe they can and may also destroy it ….. Because the people here sure as heck dont take care of it and thats obvious Father and Mother Gods say this to all their selfish and ignorant children.. YOU ALL FORGOTTEN WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO DESTROY WHAT YOURSELFS ARE ALREADY DOING A MIGHTY GOOD JOB AT KEEPING YOUR PROMISES WORTHLESS AND UNCREDITABLE MY WIFE YOUR MOTHER GODDESS IS ON OUR PLANET AS WE SPEAK TRYING TO SHOW MYSELF YOUR FATHER THAT THEY ALL DESERVED ANOTHER CHANCE SINCE THEY ALL CARE ABOUT ONE THING ONLY THE LOVE OF MONEY AND SEX AND ABUSING ONE ANOTHER TO THE POINT WHERE SHES LITERALLY SICK EVERYDAY FROM YOUR SINFUL WAYS … I MYSELF WILL REMOVE HER IMMEDIATELY AND WHEN I DO YOUR ALL IN FOR A MAJOR SUPRISE. SO JUST REMEMBER THIS THE GOVERMENTS IN YOUR COUNTRIES ARE LIARS AND WILL BE THE VERY FIRST TO FEEL MY WRATH AND FURY AS FOR YOUR CREATOR GODDESS SHE WILL BE SAFE AND SOUND IN HER REAL HOME OUR KINGDOM THAT IS EVERLASTING AND SS FOR YOURSELFS GOOD LUCK SEEKING REFUGE IN OURSELFS BECAUSE THAT SHIP IS LONG SAILED EXCEPT FOR MY CHOSEN AS THEY WILL SEE NOTHING OF MY FURY ONLY THE LOVE AND LIGHT PROMISED TO MY MEEK AND MILD AND LOVING … THIS IS YOUR ONLY MESSAGE BY THE TIME IT GOES VIRAL THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WILL ALREADY BE GONE … ONLY LOVE COULD OF SAVED THE ONES WHO KNOW NOTHING ANOUT THEIR CREATORS SO TAKE THAT AND EAT IT TILL IT MOLDS INSIDE YOUR HEARTS THAT TURNED TO AN ICKY DULL GRAY… UNTIL THE DAY COMES WHEN YOU SEEK MYSELF AND MY WIFE YOUR GODS WHOM YOU FORGOTTEN .. YOU WILL NOT KNOW REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE… LOVE YOURS TRULY YAWEAH AND ALWAYS AND FOREVER MY SPOUSE ASHERAH WHOS NAME NEW NAME IS YET TO BE ANNOUNCED… TO BE CONTINUED

  11. With all the worry’s people have living on earth why the hell do these stupid scientists and journalists keep putting out this rubbish .a comet is going to hit us ,china is going to attack us ,Russia is going to attack us ,
    It’s just a political agenda to keep everyone quite ,this has been going on since WW11, we had the Cold War then ,now we have so much happening ,the young people are worrying them selves over it , I’m old now have lived through WW11 and every other problems that has been thrown at us ,let the young enjoy there lives without the rubbish that is thrown at them about every catastrophe that is supposed to happen .

  12. mehrdad aghakasiri tehran 00989332197646 | November 5, 2023 at 8:41 am | Reply

    Is the Philippine island shaped like a submerged dinosaur? The planet that I mentioned has been destroyed due to the spilling of soil, but the land surface of the country of Guinea is higher than the island of the Philippines, and the image of the dinosaur can be seen completely on the island of Guinea. . carry !! Because this island is close to the Australian continent and it is easier to carry soil than the Philippine island, and the image of the dinosaur is quite visible in the whole Papua island in the northwest of Australia, but it is difficult to capture. The soil of the Philippine island and the soil of the Philippine island is much lower than the island of Guina, which is located in the north of Australia!! That’s why the shape of the dinosaur in the Philippine island is covered by ocean water and half of the dinosaur image is submerged under water, but it is clear that this island is in the shape of a dinosaur!! If you look at that Philippine island through the eyes of a dinosaur. (Chapter Two) The cause of the collision of the arm of the Milky Way galaxy with the sun of the solar system, the impact of meteorites of disintegrated planets on the objects of the solar system began billions of years ago, the last collision of meteorites with the surface of the earth happened tens of millions of years ago, the stars along with their planets They entered our solar system from the branch of the Milky Way galaxy, and these stars were hundreds of times lighter and smaller than the Sun. If those stars were a quarter of the sun, given the number of moons in the solar system, the earth would have warmed up for billions of years and life on earth would not exist. Given that there are about 234 moons that were once Milky Way planets, it is clear that hundreds of planets came into the Solar System from the branch of the Milky Way, the large arms of the galaxy that are under very, very strong magnetic currents all the way to the edge of the galaxy. The core of the galaxy is formed. Heavy and heavy like the sun cannot pull and carry with it, so these two arms turn into a galaxy with each half rotation, which may be about a hundred million years old, because the sun is much heavier and larger than these stars. The road barrier of this arm becomes a branch of the galaxy and the branch arm of the Milky Way constantly collides with the sun. The sun is not an ordinary star. If a passenger plane wants to circle the sun, it will take more than three months. The attraction and gravitational force of the Sun’s core is so strong that it is impossible to imagine that a car could travel the distance from the Earth to the Sun on this planet, the same distance of 15,000,000 million kilometers at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. . It takes 170 years, with all this distance from the earth to the sun, how does the sun rotate the earth at a speed of 108,000,000 kilometers per hour, this speed is more than a hundred times the speed of a passenger plane. This is an important topic related to gravity. The stars of the Milky Way, the Sun is currently passing through the Milky Way galaxy, which is close to the Solar System, and the Sun is pulling the stars of this arm of the Milky Way towards itself.

    Greetings and courtesy, doctor and author of Wadian astronomy articles and mystical poet and political activist Mehrdad Aghaksiri, I have been researching the Earth and its life and the planets of the solar system for fifty years in Iran, and I was injured in the army during the war and after serving I became a soldier with nerve and stomach disease and I live hard and have no income. Recently, I took action to get a veteran’s card and through a veteran’s loan to be able to raise funds to do something in the Islamic Republic, even though I was an inventor and a member of the Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in 1369. Being a member of this organization did not provide me with any facilities and Iranian astronomers have the power to spend most of Iran’s budget and income on the Muslim countries of the region and the Middle East. I want to print and sell in order to organize my life financially because I am not in a good financial situation in Iran. I want to come to America to do research in astronomy and astronomy. Thank you very much. They posted my discoveries on the sites, hoping to meet you dear ones00989332197646 kasiri tehran shemiran darabad

  13. mehrdad aghakasiri tehran 00989332197646 | November 12, 2023 at 2:42 pm | Reply

    Hello, I would like to thank the admins of scitech daily site for posting my comments on the site.Most of the comments I read were about God’s work and creation, how he created man and the world.May God give people focus and inspiration to live better.He has worked for thousands of years so that humans can prosper on earth and not commit crimes, but God may be at war with humans who cause war.have existed and have existed.Parents are the creators of humans and they are our gods, that is, we evolved from their existence.In the generation that was revealed to Muhammad, I accept this verse that God said: Qal Ho Allah wa Ahud Allah wa Samad Lam Yald.And Lam Yeh Wold, Lam Yekole and Kaf Van Ahad, I have completely checked the words of this song in Persian and Arabic cultures.The meaning of qul means say yes, which means Allah, Allah means the mother of Ahud, which means the man, the father of Allah, which means the grandmother of Samad, which means the grandfather of Lam Yald.It means the greatness of Yel means the great warrior and Lam Yold means his smallness.Yule means taking small steps, as a camel goes.They came to receive this message from God Muhammad at the time Muhammad was born from God to know who created Muhammad.God revealed this verse to Jamad.He revealed in 2010 that in none of the eight songs does he talk about the creation of the earth, he only mentions the song and the 365 alphabets, which are male and female, in the first song, which has 89 words.Children of creation in the world except humans, animals and God.They were marked, which means that God said that God created the animals, the people who collected the Quran, the name of the first chapter of the Quran, which is the largest chapter of the Quran, is Surah Baqarah.Cow calf, just like the people of Moses made a calf out of pure gold and considered it sacred.I will talk more about this relationship, hoping that God will protect you

  14. mehrdad aghakasiri tehran 00989332197646 | November 12, 2023 at 3:44 pm | Reply

    My whole life has been full of surprises that I have been surprised by..From the surahs that were revealed to me in 1389 and its date reaches 1389 Hijri i.e. 1132 Hijri, at that time I was 46 years old, from those eight surahs, I understood that God has chosen me..The religions that the people of the world are abandoning and those who follow the religion of Islam do not need to fight with other religions, and I said bring to the fore what has been revealed to you and tell them about the religion.Living in Iran, they should not live in the work of Iran’s gods.They used to say that in a land where, for example, the religion of Islam has emerged, every tribe and every nation should preach Islam to the Arab speakers, not the Persian speakers, and in this context, Prophet Ibrahim said.In Surah Ibrahim before Muhammad, and We did not send a Messenger to any nation, except that they speak the same language..This same people, God sends a messenger to a people to implement the decrees and numbers of God in the same people, according to this surah, the followers of the religion of Islam, whose language is the same as the language of the people of Iran, must.Read the Qur’an in the contexts where Islam has emerged.Is.If they want to act in any land other than the Arabs, conflict and war will occur, because the God of that nation cannot understand what their people are, why they speak to their God in Arabic, for example, Iranians speak Persian.The God of Iran speaks Farsi and understands from the Quran that the God of Iran does not understand that if this matter continues, it will turn into sedition and war, which the people of Iran are currently involved in under the inspiration of God.They will be displeased if I communicate with them in my Arabic words, this is very complicated and important in my future about the religion of Islam.I will talk to you

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