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Old August 21st, 2003, 06:41 PM
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Default Re: Jokes and Riddles Centre

Jupiter is likely responsible for cleaning up a lot of the garbage floating around in the system.
Things passing in front of the planet get their orbital momentum sapped and fall inwards, while things passing behind the planet (like the voyager probes) get whipped out of the system.
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