• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I dont know for sure, but its likely to do with the fact that the asteroids orbit the sun too. Even if the asteroid is coming in on the other side of the sun from jupiter, it has to orbit the sun in order get there in the first, meaning there’s a good chance it gets caught by jupiter before it can get close