Editing 3083: Jupiter Core

{{comic
| number    = 3083
| date      = April 30, 2025
| title     = Jupiter Core
| image     = jupiter_core_2x.png
| imagesize = 581x443px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created recently by AN ADMIN IN THE CENTER OF JUPITER. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

{{w|Jupiter}} is the largest planet in the {{w|Solar System}}, the fifth planet from the Sun, and the closest-in {{w|gas giant}}. The core of the planet is hidden by an enormous gaseous atmosphere, and this comic lists a number of theories about the structure of that core. The first two are theories that are or have been held by reputable planetary scientists (they can be found in the Wikipedia entry), while the rest are ridiculous ideas from Randall's mind.

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!Number Jupiter!!Caption of Jupiter!!Explanation
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|1||Diffuse mix of heavy elements and metallic hydrogen||Data from {{w|Juno (spacecraft)|Juno}}, a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter since 2016, supports this structure.
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|2||Rocky core with metallic, hydrogen mantle||This was one of the leading proposals prior to the Juno mission.
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|3||Valuable treasure|| Indecipherable objects that may be gemstones or precious metals, surrounded by dollar signs. May be a reference to the occasionally proposed idea that gas giant cores might be composed of diamond, famously used in Arthur C. Clarke's ''{{w|2010: Odyssey Two}}''.
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|4||Emergency backup Earth||This would be a copy of the Earth that can be put into place once we finish destroying our planet. In popular science Jupiter is often described as a "protector" of Earth since its large gravitational field attracts asteroids that could otherwise hit Earth. This could be Randall's take on this claim in that it has a backup Earth in case everything else fails.
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|5||Regular planet pretending to be a gas giant to avoid attention||The joke here is that there is secretly a regular planet hiding inside Jupiter that is shy and does not want attention, so it pretends to be a gas giant. Of course, planets are not shy in real life, as they do not have feelings.{{citation needed}}
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|6||Hard ball from avocado|| An avocado pit is the seed of the avocado.
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|7||Baby Jupiter, still gestating||Jupiter is so big because it's pregnant, and the core is a fetal planet.
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|8||No core; flat Earth conspiracists are wrong about Earth but right about Jupiter||{{w|Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs|Flat Earth}} is a debunked{{cn}} claim that the Earth is not actually spherical, but flat. This version of Jupiter proposes that while Earth may not be flat, Jupiter is, so it doesn't actually have a core. Both Earth-based astronomy and flyby missions disprove this.
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|9||{{w|Matryoshka doll}} (title text)||Since Jupiter is by far the largest planet of the solar system (and in fact larger by both mass and volume than all other Solar System planets combined), it could hypothetically contain all other planets nested inside one another. The order from largest to smallest would be Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury.
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==Transcript==
{{Incomplete|better phrasing needed}}

:Current leading theories for what's in the center of Jupiter:

:[Variations of Jupiter, except for the last are shown with about 1/8 of the planet chopped off to show the core.]

:[Jupiter with liquid material at its core]
:Diffuse mix of heavy elements and metallic hydrogen

:[Jupiter with a rocky core]
:Rocky core with metallic, hydrogen mantle

:[Jupiter with a pile of coins for a core, with multiple dollar signs shown]
:Valuable treasure

:[Jupiter with Earth for a core]
:Emergency backup Earth

:[Hollow Jupiter with a rocky planet in the middle, the outer layer held in place by inner supports]
:Regular planet pretending to be a gas giant to avoid attention

:[Jupiter with a smooth ball for a core]
:Hard ball from avocado

:[Jupiter with a small version of Jupiter for a core]
:Baby Jupiter, still gestating

:[Jupiter as a flat circle, with nothing chopped off]
:No core; flat Earth conspiracists are wrong about Earth but right about Jupiter

{{comic discussion}}

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