On Monday, September 9, 2013 4:03:20 AM UTC-7, Alastair McDonald wrote:
This is a free event at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm on Monday 23 September 2013 at

the Royal Society, London given by Dr Christopher Arridge, a Royal Society

University Research Fellow.



Event details



Jupiter is over 600 million kilometres away from us - how has it helped our

planet to evolve safely? What are the space environments surrounding the

giant planets like? Why are these planets important in the history of our

solar system? Discover the surprising nature of the space surrounding giant

planets, and how this helps protect both them and planet earth.



A recorded audio will be available on this page a few days afterwards.



http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/giant-planets/


Cheers, Alastair.

Those big planets are helping by attracting and accelerating more stuff to head towards Earth.