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Jupiter Has Taken a Massive Meteor Hit (So Earth Didn’t Have To)
Gizmodo ^
| 9/12/12
| Jamie Condliffe
Posted on 09/12/2012 2:41:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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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?
To: LibWhacker
Could be the meteor fragmenting as it hit the atmosphere. The smaller chunks would disperse around the large projectile.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:47:02 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
One day it WILL come our way.
To: LibWhacker
THANK YOU JUPITER!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
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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.
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:51:47 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: fhayek
I realized today that I’m a FReeper of the apocalypse. My sign up anniversary is on the day the world is supposed to live.
FReepers of the apocalypse, lets ride!
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:53:30 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: LibWhacker
Bush’s fault.
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Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:55:51 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
To: Terry Mross
I don’t understand why we assume that it protects us. Seems to me that there is an equal chance that asteroids and comets could be nudged inward as well.
The only thing tilting the scale in favor of protection is that some will get caught in Jupiter’s gravity and crash into the planet.
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:56:27 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
Nobody was talking about December 21 as the end of the world until you signed up ;-)
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:56:55 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: LibWhacker
Thank you Jupiter.
I would hate to think that we would have to rely on Steve Buscemi to do anything.
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posted on
09/12/2012 2:57:59 PM PDT
by
waus
(FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/12/2012 3:00:34 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
To: Psycho_Bunny
Jupiter had it coming.*****************************
LOL!
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posted on
09/12/2012 3:01:54 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: LibWhacker
Amazing. Almost as if God put it out there... :)
To: Joe 6-pack
You just better hope I don’t find 3 more FReepers who signed up on the 21st of December.
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posted on
09/12/2012 3:04:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Psycho_Bunny
Jupiter had it coming."Jupiter's chickennnnnnnnnnnnnnns...coming home to roost!"
To: Charles Martel
That flash was about the same size as our planet. So yeah, thanks Jupiter! You took one for our team.
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posted on
09/12/2012 3:07:50 PM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
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