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Old April 29th 10, 02:57 PM posted to alt.astronomy.solar
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Default Jupiter ignition question

Black Baptist wrote:
Barry Schwarz wrote in
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On 27 Apr 2010 21:45:05 GMT, Black Baptist
wrote:

If all the asteroids in the solor system impacted with jupiter would
it be enough mass to cause jupiter to ingnite?

Jupiter already contains well over 70% of the extra-solar mass in the
solar system. Even if all the planets and asteroids and comets joined
in, it wouldn't grow even 50%. If you limit the growth to just the
asteroids, the growth would be pretty miniscule as a percentage.


Thanks for the reply...so basically there's no chance of us becoming a
binary star system then?


Gravitational capture.