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Topic: Something hit Jupiter ...again! Impact sighted
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DChudwin
Member Posts: 1096
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-07-2010 08:25 AM
   
Two astronomers, one in Australia and the other in the Phillipines, captured images, including a short video, of an object, possibly an asteroid, hitting Jupiter. This is a new sighting. ...two of the world's best-known amateur observers of Jupiter both saw the flash of impact at 20:31 GMT today (4:31 p.m. ET). In Australia, Anthony Wesley captured a picture of the hit just before sunrise Friday (Down Under time). And in the Philippines, Christopher Go turned his pictures into a short video that was posted on SpaceWeather.com."I still can't believe that I caught a live impact on Jupiter," SpaceWeather quoted Go as saying. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 06-07-2010 08:36 AM
As the theory goes, there wouldn't be life if there had been no Jupiter to take all the hits from comets and asteroids. A clue for the folks examining other solar systems. |
DChudwin
Member Posts: 1096
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-07-2010 09:31 PM
Here is one of the short videos of the impact on YouTube. This is what amateur astronomer Christopher Go observed from the Phillipines. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-08-2010 03:22 AM
Interesting story, I was observing that night but Jupiter wasn't visible in the early night over Europe... Exciting stuff! |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 06-08-2010 05:24 AM
This explains why my mother-in-law and her car went missing. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 06-08-2010 06:22 AM
Sorry to hear that, was it a good car? |
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