Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Meteorites reveal Jupiter's troubled childhood

Jupiter's southern hemisphere photographed by NASA's Juno probe

Jupiter may be the largest planet in the solar system, but it experienced growing pains. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists from the Universities of Zurich and Bern, and ETH Zurich, who say that the giant planet grew in three stages with a two-million-year gap, during which it grew very slowly and may even have affected the development of the rest of the solar system.

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