It kind of looks to me like there is also a short arc of smaller impacts above the main one. Another simultaneous shotgun blast of meteors hitting Jupiter or photographic artifact?
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To: LibWhacker
Could be the meteor fragmenting as it hit the atmosphere. The smaller chunks would disperse around the large projectile.
2 posted on
09/12/2012 2:45:24 PM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: LibWhacker
Jupiter didn't take that hit by itself it had help!3 posted on
09/12/2012 2:45:24 PM PDT by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: LibWhacker
As a gas giant, I’m not sure you can say that it hit the “surface” but it’s an interesting event.
4 posted on
09/12/2012 2:45:54 PM PDT by
The Toad
To: LibWhacker
I think that this was intended for Earth on December 21st. Must be the Mayans didn’t factor Jupiter into their calculations.
5 posted on
09/12/2012 2:46:11 PM PDT by
fhayek
To: LibWhacker
That was a big hit. Given the relative size of Jupiter versus the Earth, it would have been nasty if it had come our way.
6 posted on
09/12/2012 2:47:02 PM PDT by
EagleUSA
To: LibWhacker
THANK YOU JUPITER!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
8 posted on
09/12/2012 2:51:18 PM PDT by
NCDave
(AKA, "That idiot over there")
To: LibWhacker
So! The Shoemaker-Levy event is not as rare as originally thought.
9 posted on
09/12/2012 2:51:47 PM PDT by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: LibWhacker
Bush’s fault.
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Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
11 posted on
09/12/2012 2:55:51 PM PDT by
Rebelbase
(The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
To: LibWhacker
Thank you Jupiter.
I would hate to think that we would have to rely on Steve Buscemi to do anything.
14 posted on
09/12/2012 2:57:59 PM PDT by
waus
(FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
To: LibWhacker
15 posted on
09/12/2012 3:00:34 PM PDT by
Psycho_Bunny
(OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
To: LibWhacker
Amazing. Almost as if God put it out there... :)
To: LibWhacker
Will dumbass Øbama take credit for saving our planet?
23 posted on
09/12/2012 3:12:58 PM PDT by
ßuddaßudd
(>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: LibWhacker
This just in......President Obama has issued proclamation of gratitude and an apology to the president of Jupiter!!!
25 posted on
09/12/2012 3:17:11 PM PDT by
ontap
To: LibWhacker
Jupiter’s such a team player! Yes, it’s like it was put there by Intelligent Design.
26 posted on
09/12/2012 3:36:49 PM PDT by
GreatestGuyIKnow
("In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans." Theodore Roosevelt)
To: LibWhacker
and of course it just all happens to be lcuk and randomness...God couldn’t have had such a plan
27 posted on
09/12/2012 3:40:30 PM PDT by
Nifster
To: LibWhacker
Sounds like a perfect time to cut spending on space research!
To: LibWhacker
Interesting that an apparently major impact event was caught by amateurs and not studied in real time as Shoemaker-Levy was.
I take it that this meteor was an unknown entity? Kind of out of the blue? Any notion being put forth as to size? A whole lot of discomfiting unknowns here, imho.
To: LibWhacker
“Jupiter’s gravitational field sucks a great many asteroids and comets towards it”
To put it simply, it’s the Sandra Fluke of planets.
To: LibWhacker
By Jove, I think he got hit!
36 posted on
09/12/2012 5:26:25 PM PDT by
mikrofon
(Space BUMP)
To: LibWhacker
Jupiter is our friend. All we have to do is leave Europa alone.
42 posted on
09/12/2012 9:00:46 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useful idiots.)
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