Question

What separates the terrestrial planets from the Jovian or gas planets in space?

Answer 1

In our solar system, there are eight planets, exactly half the number of those planets are Jovian and the other half are terrestrial planets. The terrestrial planets are made of land and water etc. And the Jovian planets are made almost entirely of gas. The first half of the planets in the solar system are terrestrial, which are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and the second half of the planets in this solar system are gas giants which are known as the Jovian and they are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Between the two planets of Mars and Jupiter lies something referred to as the "Asteroid Belt" which is basically what separates the two types of planets in the solar system. Although, it doesn't really keep them apart from each other, if the asteroid belt wasn't there, the planets would still be in the same layout they are today, but the asteroid belt is in between Mars and Jupiter, and on the left side of the asteroid belt are the terrestrial planets and on the right side of the asteroid belt are the Jovian planets which are also known as gas giants.