What If Jupiter and Saturn Collided?

The two biggest planets in our Solar System in one telescope view. And catastrophe is imminent. If Jupiter and Saturn suddenly were on a collision course, which of the two planets would emerge victorious? How would the composition of these planets affect the outcome? And what impact would this have on the rest of our Solar System? What is a great conjunction?

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[TheOrigamiGenius]

What if: Jupiter is sometimes referred to as a failed star
Also what if: Throws everything at jupiter slowly making it a star

[zth_real]

Saturn : Arnt My Rings Just Beautiful-

Jupiter : *Mine Now.*

[MastersDefender]

"Jupiter is sometimes referred to as a failed star."

Don't say that, Jupiter tried its best. 🙁

[orion]

I think the most realistic risk posed to Earth wasn't mentioned- the orbits of the planets are changed, accidentally flinging Earth into deep space by itself. Isolated planets with no stars have been discovered.

[Nulono]

5:26 In other words, what you said earlier about the event turning Jupiter into a star was wrong. Unless 247 Saturns fell into Jupiter.

[RealImpostor]

if this happened we would probably have no wifi for the rest of our lives

[blackstallion]

This is interesting. I also wanted to know what would happen if Saturn has the same mass as Jupiter. I wonder what would happen to our solar system. I hope that will be in the future

[justmoonwithamustache]

Jupiter is the fastest planet in spinning speed, and it is said Saturn is the lightest planet despite the size. And Jupiter also has rings

[biologicalmale]

Feels like most of this stuff boils down to this: if anything changes by one degree, one mile per hour, one inch? We all die.

[factulous]

It's like: *Watching two neighbours fight and waiting for who will win*

[Youbibaby]

Personally I think if an event like this ever happened it would be the end of us here on earth. Regardless of how far out that collision would be the debris IS going to hit us and it won't be pretty. We humans tend to forget that it was by accident (an astroid strike) that we got here. The dinosaur would still be king had it not been for that asteroid hit.

[TheCriticalBiblicalThinker]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention what it would do to earth via the gravity. That would be huge.

[MonsterIsABlock]

*I would expect Uranus to come out of that.*

[being_artist]

Hats off to cameraman for recording this event so clearly with different angles

[CrimsonUltrafox]

Jupiter would need to be 80 times more massive to become the smallest possible star, the red dwarf. It never came close to being a star or even a brown dwarf. We should be grateful it's not a brown dwarf either. That amount of gravity would drastically alter the orbits of the inner planets within the solar system. It would also fall closer into the center of the solar system since Saturn's gravity could no longer anchor it in its current orbit. In most cases this would eject the inner rocky planets, but more likely it would also cause elliptical variations which would inevitably lead to planetary collisions. There's also the issue of an elliptical orbit causing Earth to move in and out of the habitable zone causing extreme variations in its temperature as it moved closer and further away from the sun. Assuming the Brown Dwarf Jupiter became a "Hot-Jupiter" and was closer to the sun than our rocky planets, then it would be possible to exist in a stable orbit around both of them. However, at its current location, Jupiter as a Brown Dwarf would completely disrupt the orbits of every planet.

[olayidedaniel]

What IF never disappoints with the precise calculations for planetary collisions 😁

[dabadc]

Jupiter is sometimes ERRONEOUSLY referred to as a failed star. It barely has a quarter the mass needed to be a brown dwarf, let alone a star. It was never close to becoming a star; it's just a gas giant. Still my favorite planet!

[majeedaltubaishe]

Respect the cameraman man for going into a alternative universe and recording all of this

[theophrastus.]

We need a naming contest! 1) Jupiturn 2) Sapiter 2) Great ☄️ Balls of Fire.
Pick one!

[rocketcallofduty]

YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG