What happens if Jupiter catches fire?

What would happen if Jupiter caught on fire? – Quora. Assuming such an event were possible, in the long run, not much would change. The composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere would change slightly. The amount of molecular oxygen would decrease.

Can you burn Jupiter?

The planet Jupiter is the largest in our Solar System, but is it large enough to ignite? Stars burn as a result of thermonuclear reactions deep in their cores. This corresponds to about 13 times the mass of Jupiter, meaning that Jupiter itself is incapable of ever ‘igniting’.

What if Jupiter collided with Earth?

As the Earth is pulled into Jupiter, our planet’s velocity could increase until it reaches 60 km/s (37 mi/s). Our planet is too small and would burn up in the atmosphere before that ever happens. This would have a huge impact on Jupiter, as the Earth’s remains would completely mix into its atmosphere.

What would happen if you lit a match on Jupiter?

If you lit a match on Jupiter, would the planet explode? Jupiter is 90\% hydrogen, but the remaining 10\% is mostly helium. A match is composed of carbon, which reacts with heat to combine with oxygen to create CO2. In the absence of oxygen, it would not burn.

Why can’t you light a fire on Jupiter?

Jupiter has a lot of hydrogen but it doesn’t have any free oxygen to support fire. Remember the Fire triangle: to have a fire, you need fuel (like hydrogen), oxidizer (like oxygen), heat to ignite it (your fire), and a chemical reaction between fuel and oxidizer.

Can you light hydrogen on Jupiter with a torch?

Hydrogen can only burn in the presence of oxygen. And seeing Jupiter is a gas giant with the gases separate in different layers, even if you were to use a plasma torch (a regular match would not work) to try and ignite the hydrogen so it could burn, a key ingredient would still be missing, that ingredient being oxygen.

What would happen if a hurricane hit Jupiter?

It would be blown out by the hurricane winds, then extinguished by the lack of oxygen. Jupiter has massive thunderstorms, the size of the earth, with hundreds of lightning bolts per minute. Anything capable of being ignited would have been ignited long ago.