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Perhaps you guys can help. I recently heard how Jupiter is a gasiousl planet. Have heard it's made of mercury and is a gas due to space mercury is a liquid on earth due to is gravity or oxygen or something like that.

It baffles me that Jupiter is a gasious planet and supposedly not solid. Then I'm watching "Ancient Astroids" on the History channel and they were talking about Shoemaker hitting Jupiter. how can anything hit Jupiter if it's a gasious planet?

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I'm baffled. If it has a solid core and gas surrounding it I guess I could understand but I keep hearing how it's made of mercury and is a gas due to space. Which to me would mean solids would travel through it without colliding with anything.