Does it just pass through it? Could an asteroid have created the big red storm on Jupiter? I think and read about space all the time and this has never come up or even crossed my mind.
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Not all that different than hitting a rocky planet.
Small enough ones will break up in the atmosphere just like here. But Gas Giants are…well…giant. At their atmosphere is a lot more dense so that means what counts as “small” is a lot bigger than here on Earth. I don’t really know how to do the math, but I wouldn’t be surprised if anything smaller than a dwarf planet just breaks up in atmo.
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