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Old September 26th 03, 02:04 AM
Hop David
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Default Galileo To Taste Jupiter Before Taking Final Plunge



Henry Spencer wrote:
In article ,
Gordon D. Pusch wrote:

1.) Galileo's impact velocity will be so high it will wiff to plasma.
2.) Jupiter's environment is most likely too alien for anything that
evolved on Earth to survive there --- even in the "water zone."
3.) Jupiter has almost certainly already been hit by terrestrial material
ejected by asteroid impacts...



Possibly not since life evolved, though; it takes a really huge impact to
get stuff off Earth. The other two points I generally agree with.


The Chicxulub meteor wasn't big enough?

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