Note: this topic is from 05/31/2017 . Thanks LibWhacker.
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Posted on 05/31/2017 7:10:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Yet another Jovian fireball? On May 26th, amateur astronomers recorded a rare impact flash in Jupiter's north polar region.
Jupiter just got beaned for the sixth time (that we know about)! On the evening of May 26th, between 19:24.6 and 19:26.2 Universal Time, Sauveur Pedranghelu, a French amateur from Corsica, detected an impact flash live on video in Jupiter's north polar region.
The flash was very brief, lasting only about 0.7 second, and displayed two brightness peaks. A bright dot — about the size of Europa when seen in transit — marked the site of impact at latitude 51° north and central meridian longitudes System I = 74°, System II = 159°, and System III = 292°. The position is a little east of oval BA, a.k.a. Red Spot Jr., which is located on the same face of the planet but in the southern hemisphere.
(Jupiter's rotation rate isn't the same everywhere on its globe. Its midsection spins every 9 hours 50.5 minutes, and astronomers refer to this as as the System I rotation period. That's slightly faster than the rotation rates of regions well away from the equator, which are noted as System II, or the planet's deep interior, known as System III. Here's a quick guide describing these three schemes.)
Marc Delcroix, who coordinates a worldwide group of Jupiter observers, posted an email about the the discovery to various groups. Within a day of the news, a second video by Thomas Riessler of Dettenhausen, Germany, showed an identical pinpoint flash between 19:24.6 and 19:25.0 UT — confirming Pedranghelu's observation. The estimated duration of the fireball from that video was 0.87 second.
Jupiter watchers are excitedly training telescopes and cameras on the giant planet in hopes of seeing if the meteoroid explosion left any traces similar to the dark spots in similar impacts of the past or possibly a bright spot when photographed through narrowband methane filters.
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Its the Russians...
Interesting.
I wonder if Juno got a good look at it.
Ruh roh. Incoming!
Anderson Cooper reported it as a near miss for Uranus.
Just wait until one impact comes here!
I’ll wait but it makes me think; all that waiting and then ... nothing!
LOL
Maybe it was Hotblack Desiato.
Good question! Wouldn’t that be awesome?
Note: this topic is from 05/31/2017 . Thanks LibWhacker.
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Interesting.
Oh, man. They’re invading the wrong planet again. Excuse me, I gotta go make a call...
ROFL and Happy Thanksgiving.
Glad to hear it's interplanetary!
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