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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 13 (EL UNIVERSAL) .- Earth is hit every 20 or 30 years for asteroids reduced dimensions, which go unnoticed because they disintegrate before reaching Earth, but could be much more if Jupiter did not exist.

A new research from the University of the Basque Country UPV / EHU explains that these impacts on Jupiter are more common than previously thought and far more numerous than those receiving Earth.

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affects the fact that the bursts can be identified with small telescopes is a breakthrough that allows you to calculate how many objects of this size moving across the solar system, some 50 million asteroids.

However, the obvious question is it possible to deflect an object of this size? At present there is a NASA program that identifies objects, such as the two asteroids last week that touched the earth.

The program sets the risk of colliding with Earth, although "there is not enough technology to change the & othan that produced on Earth. "

Scientists say that Jupiter acts as a 'protective umbrella', because, "with its enormous gravity," attracting "hard to himself" wandering objects in the solar system passing through their neighborhood.