by S. Bilderback » Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:23 pm
Jupiter is a gas giant and does have a rocky core much smaller than the Earth; I think standing on it would be out of the question. The pull of Jupiter’s gravity is 26 times stronger than the Earth so I he weighed 100 pounds on Earth he would weigh 2,600 pounds on Jupiter, I sure he's a strong young man but probably not that strong. Then there is the heat and the atmospheric pressure, we can only give our best guess of the temps at the rocky core somewhere in the 1,000 degree range with pressures thousands of times stronger than the pressures at the deepest parts of the ocean. The gasses are compressed so hard and are so hot a bullet would quickly slow, melt and slowly fall until all it's atoms would defuse and mix into the atmosphere and may take millions of years for the atoms to finally reach the core if at all.
I hope that's enough but not too much information.
Jupiter is a gas giant and does have a rocky core much smaller than the Earth; I think standing on it would be out of the question. The pull of Jupiter’s gravity is 26 times stronger than the Earth so I he weighed 100 pounds on Earth he would weigh 2,600 pounds on Jupiter, I sure he's a strong young man but probably not that strong. Then there is the heat and the atmospheric pressure, we can only give our best guess of the temps at the rocky core somewhere in the 1,000 degree range with pressures thousands of times stronger than the pressures at the deepest parts of the ocean. The gasses are compressed so hard and are so hot a bullet would quickly slow, melt and slowly fall until all it's atoms would defuse and mix into the atmosphere and may take millions of years for the atoms to finally reach the core if at all.
I hope that's enough but not too much information.