If Jupiter Were About 80 Times More Massive Than It

question 64

Multiple Choice

If Jupiter were about 80 times more massive than it is, nuclear fusion should have beenpossible, making it a small star. What might have been the most likely effect on the Earth?

• A)The gravitational pull might have prevented the Earth settling into a stable orbit, which wouldhave prevented the development of life on Earth.
• B)Jupiter's moons would have been likely to develop life, which would have competed with lifeon Earth.
• C)The extra radiation from a second star in the solar system would have prevented life formingon Earth.
• D)Jupiter's magnetic field would have been much larger, disrupting Earth's magnetic field.
• E)Nothing because Jupiter is so much further from the Earth than the Sun is.

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