An extra planet between Mars and Jupiter would have thrown Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Venus and Mercury out of the solar system

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have published an interesting document. In him

it is said that our planet would be thrown out of the solar system if there were a super-Earth (a planet with a mass between Earth and Neptune) between Jupiter and Mars.

What is known

Distance between the planets of the solar systembegins to increase sharply after Mars. If the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are located 50-80 million km one after another, then Jupiter is located at a distance of 550 million from the Red Planet. Fortunately for us, the space between Jupiter and Mars is empty.

A study by US scientists shows thatan extra planet between Mars and Jupiter would have thrown Earth out of the solar system. Computer simulations have shown that there is only one orbit in which a super-Earth could rotate.

In other cases, the presence of a planet betweenJupiter and Mars would lead to disaster. It would destabilize the orbits of other celestial bodies, as a result of which the Earth, Venus, Mercury, Uranus and Neptune would be thrown out of the solar system.

This is because the super-Earth would have affectedJupiter, which would bring an imbalance into the orbits of other planets. The most favorable result for the Earth is the preservation within the solar system with a parallel lengthening of the orbit and the termination of life.