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it's wednesday september 28th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Could a change in Jupiter's orbit make life on Earth more hospitable?

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Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Jupiter was making headlines this week because the planet was as close to Earth as it gets all year on Monday evening, making it a perfect time to

have looked up and seen the gas giant at its biggest and brightest. A lot of headlines were

making a big deal about Jupiter being the closest to Earth that it's been since 1963,

which is technically true. But as Phil Plate pointed out in his bad astronomy newsletter,

it's not as huge a difference as mainstream publications hyped it up to be. The reason Jupiter

was so close was because it was at opposition, when it's directly opposite the sun in the sky

from our vantage point on Earth. Quoting plate, Jupiter orbits the sun about 780 million

kilometers from our star on average, a little over five times Earth's distance from the sun.

But that's on average. Its orbit is a mild ellipse, taking it as close as 740 million and as far as 816 million kilometers from the sun.

That in turn means its distance from us at opposition changes depending on where Big J is in its orbit.

As it happens, Jupiter is close to perihelion, the point in its orbit when it's closest to the sun.

It's not exactly there now, but we'll reach it in January 2023.

Still, this means it's about 593 million kilometers from us, which is still the closest

it's been at opposition in a long time.

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