"Potential Impact On Saturn": Astronomers Appeal For Help As Video Appears To Show Object Hitting The Gas Giant

IFLScience ^ | July 7, 2025 | James Felton

[SunkenCiv]

Saturn, captured by Cassini.

Image credit: NASA

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the link!

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[No name given]

Wow.

[DannyTN]

I’m way too busy to help Saturn.

[stevio]

Are NASA’s new DEI hires actually trying to blame this on Whites? 🤔

[God luvs America]

Saturn, like Jupiter, is a gas giant.

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my daughter alleges the same about me....

[SunkenCiv]

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[Scarpetta]

Take a ticket and we’ll call your number.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Would it help Saturn if we inserted more probes into Uranus ?

[BBQToadRibs2]

My magic move is a couple glasses of wine and a backrub. Don’t know if Saturn’s down with that.

[blackdog]

No federal judges ordering a halt to this?

[SunkenCiv]

😁

[TonyM]

Not sure how much damage a rock can do to a ball of gas. I suppose if there were such a thing as Gasosaurs on Saturn they are headed for extinction.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Better it hit Saturn than Uranus .

[MtnClimber]

Did the object that hit Saturn originate in Uranus? Those things hit my car sometimes.

[TonyM]

I already passed a couple of gas giants from the omelette I had for breakfast.

[Blurb2350]

If it’s a gas giant, Uranus is the likely culprit.

[alancarp]

"...an image taken by NASA's Mario Rana appears to show an object slamming into Saturn."

Ooooo... and I thought Rosie O'Donnell had flown into Ireland. That might leave a mark.

[telescope115]

There is an observatory at the South Pole. In 1994 when Shoemaker-Levi 9 hit Jupiter, that observatory was the only one to capture all of the impacts.

I don’t know if this can be corroborated online, but I heard it first hand from an astronomer from Yerkes Observatory who was staying at the South Pole at the time. His name was John Briggs.

https://www.aavso.org/node/85883

[Not A Snowbird]

Help from who?