What would happen if we detonated a thermonuclear weapon on Jupiter, a planet composed of mainly flammable things?

AL Alanmax asked on 26 June 2020, 21:14
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What would happen if we detonated a thermonuclear weapon on Jupiter, a planet composed of mainly flammable things?

You need fuel and oxygen to make fire. Jupiter doesn’t have free oxygen. That’s why its epic lightning storms don’t trigger global fires. That’s why the epic Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 comet impacts (which released explosions equal to millions of megatons of TNT) didn’t ignite Jupiter.

This is a fireball larger than Earth rising over Jupiter’s horizon:

The end result from Shoemaker-Levy 9’s fragments was just holes in the clouds:

No oxidizer, no fire.

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