[SunkenCiv]

Saturn, captured by Cassini.

Image credit: NASA

[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....

[BBQToadRibs2]

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

[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 .

[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?

[simpson96]

Like massive Jupiter, Saturn’s gravity took out (in this case, “took in”) something that could have one day been a threat to Earth.

[TangoLimaSierra]

That impact probably would have destroyed us.

Sure glad we have Jupiter and Saturn sucking up giant errant fly-bys.

[BigFreakinToad]

it’s good to have a couple gas giants in the outer system to take one for the team

[Lake Living]

How disappointing! I opened this article thinking it was about Stacy Abrams. /s

[epluribus_2]

And so the solar system game of billiards begins...

[shotgun]

[Clay Moore]

Another victim of global warming caused by the United States use of the infernal combustion engine. So sad. 😭

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sadly my first thought was to wonder how many billions of dollars they wanted to fix the damage.

Glad to see that they just want anyone who saw it to send in their photos.