
Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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What Happened With the Asteroid Belt?
The asteroid belt has rocky stuff in it from the inner solar system, but also icy stuff from the outer solar system. So why didn't nudge them into the sun, as opposed to pulling it jupiter? Yes, we don't know. It could have been either fate, right? This is very chaotic and so it depends exactly on how big they were and how they were lined. The fate of these planets could be, like, fall into the sun, or get absorbed by j Jupiter, or even get tossed out of the solar system entirely.
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