Jupiter’s strange core may have been forged by a colossal head-on crash
Sep 12, 2019
1 minute
Words by Chelsea Gohd
About 4.5 billion years ago a young Jupiter collided head-on with a planetary embryo ten-times more massive than Earth. This giant impact formed Jupiter's dilute core, which contains hydrogen and helium, one new study suggests.
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