Posted on 08/09/2019 11:56:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An amateur astronomer in Texas captured a rare sight earlier this week when an apparent meteor slammed into Jupiters thick upper atmosphere.
On Wednesday, amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel was on the lookout for Perseid meteors, reports ScienceAlert. But his telescope was trained on Jupiter with the camera running. Later, after feeding the data into a software program designed to detect impact flashes, Chappel was alerted to the event.
Looking at the footage, Chappel saw a brief but discernible flash along the western portion of Jupiters Southern Equatorial Belt, or SEB.
Later that day, Chappel announced his discovery in a tweet: Imaged Jupiter tonight. Looks awfully like an impact flash in the SEB. Chappel released a sharper version of the impact on Thursday, along with a colorized view of the apparent impact.
Imafe: Chappel Astro/Gizmodo
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lol
Some of the gases that escape from Uranus are very unusual.
Just be thankful our solar system has such gas giants way out there sucking up cosmic projectiles.
:)
Considering how big Jupiter is that was some massive asteroid that hit the planet.
Quick, count the moons!
Perhaps Marianne Williamson can update her charts to reflect this event...
We should be happy that Jupiter is the solar systems vacuum cleaner. Otherwise these things would be flying all over the place.
I took the wrong exit on the freeway.
Sorry y’all.
Or deflect them toward us
Dang it.
Hello. GalactUber, please send another driver. And make sure this one can navigate.
Now I’ll never make the appointment on time. Why do all the best doctors have to be on Arcturus?
Hey! I prefer to be called deplorable.
The Great Red Spot’s diameter is just over 10K miles. The flash in the photo is 7/40ths the diameter of the Spot. Therefore the flash created by the impact of the object - meteor, asteroid, comet, whatever - seems to have been nearly two thousand miles in diameter. The 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s .62 miles in diameter pieces left much larger splotches in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, so the thing that left this more recent mark may be inferred to have been significantly smaller.
reprobates?
What’s that? Like...um... reproductively masturbating ?
LOL! :)
Agree 100%. It's amazing how much detail there is in nature and astronomy showing that we're not here by accident. That only a Creator could have set so many things just right to make advanced life able to exist.
If Jupiter were too close we'd have too much tectonic activity here on Earth. But if it was too far away it would be able to be our protective big brother and pull cosmic objects into its massive gravity well for us.
Greeting, Greetings, fellow Stargazers
Thanks!
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER.
USE THEM IN PEACE.
Should be able to see Antares in the city too. I have.
I saw it in it’s lasts evening apparation in May/June. It had a close conjunction with Mars.
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