Saturday, August 1, 2020

Creation Moment 8/2/2020 - Hot Jupiters Undermine Jupiter Evolutionary Cosmology

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God...
Hebrews 11:3

"Kenneth Croswell describes some of the new models trying to explain the birth of Jupiter. Planetary scientists thought they had the gas giants figured out in the 1990s, until some inconvenient
facts got in the way.

The discovery of “hot Jupiters” around other stars threw the models into disarray; instead of slow accretion out beyond the “frost line,” they had to invoke gravitational billiards to get them to migrate in close to the parent stars. It also threw the models of our Jupiter’s origin into a cocked hat.

Everything they thought they knew was wrong, and it was time to start over. They invented new models, like pebble accretion and disk instability, with type-II migration to move the gas giants closer in after they formed."
CEH