Those big moons of Jupiter apparently kept the planet from reaching its Saturn potential.
You wouldn’t be the first, and scientists now think they know the answer., are Jupiter's pesky and numerous moons.
The researchers ran a simulation that accounted for Jupiter’s orbit, as well as that of its four moons. They found that the gravitational pull of the moons were strong enough to cause the shards of ice that typically comprise planetary rings to be booted out of Jupiter’s orbit, or even be sucked into the moons themselves.
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