BREAKING: Another Jupiter impact?

[Ian David]

Source: Discover Magazine

In what turns out to be a major coincidence, Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer in Australia, is reporting that he recorded another impact on Jupiter! This time he has video of the impact, which he claims was quite bright and lasted about two seconds. The video is not yet available, but here’s a still:




He reports that there is no obvious impact scar as in previous such events. If this pans out, I’m sure Hubble and many other observatories will be in a big hurry to get observations! Infrared images are of particular interest, since they can record the heat from the blast.

This really is a funny coincidence, since just this morning the news was released that the 2009 impact — also discovered by Wesley — was caused by an asteroid impact. This new event appears to be smaller, since it didn’t get as bright as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts in 1994, which were also of the same magnitude as the 2009 event.

More:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/03/breaking-another-jupiter-impact/




Read more: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/03/breaking-another-jupiter-impact/

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See prior thread about the EARLIER Jupiter impact:

Hubble identifies Jupiter's attacker
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x67372

[The Straight Story]

1. K&R (nt)

[daleo]

2. Interesting

I hope Hubble has a look.

[onehandle]

3. 'You've managed to kill everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target!' nt

[Egnever]

8. I hate that I know that quote right off the bat

Sheesh, what a geek I am

[onehandle]

9. Well, that was the best one in the series.

Memorable.

[aquart]

4. Leave Jupiter alone!

I'm going to sit quietly now.

[liberation]

5. Awesome

thanks for sharing...

[geomon666]

6. Thanks Jupiter

Thank you for being the big brother out there and taking all the hits for us.

[jayfish]

7. Exclusive Video!!

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/breaking-news-jupiter-hit-by-yet-another-impactor.ars

Short but sweet!

FSH

[Hugabear]

10. I'm sure that Glen Beck will somehow blame Obama for this

If only Obama had spent more on asteroid defense for Jupiter

[alfredo]

11. Tip of the hat for amateur astronomers.