"Did someone mention Uranus?"
Posted on 07/21/2009 6:07:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
PASADENA, California — A large comet or asteroid has slammed into Jupiter, creating an impact site the size of Earth, pictures by an Australian amateur astronomer show.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the discovery using its large infrared telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, said computer programer Anthony Wesley, 44, who discovered the impact zone while stargazing at home.
News of Wesley's find on a backyard 14.5-inch reflecting telescope has stunned the astronomy world, with scientists saying the impact will last only days more.
Wesley said it took him 30 minutes to realize a dark spot rotating in Jupiter's clouds on July 19 was actually the first impact seen by astronomers since a comet collided with the giant planet in July 1994.
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Aaahhh, it was only the size of one of their larger cities, Gore-ville, I believe it’s called. I hope their FEMA wasn’t trained in New Orleans.
Just what I was going to say. Jupiter is our Solar System’s great protector. It has been sucking up junk since it became a planet.
Empire battle cruiser jettisoning garbage
What's scarier is the pickup-sized rock that missed us here on Earth last year by only 80,000 miles, and we didn't see it until it had gone by!
No, no. The meme is now Obama’s fault. It’s time for some revenge.
"Did someone mention Uranus?"
Giant asteroid slams into Jupiter. Women and minorities hardest hit.
I love how people worry about this! If one hits, it will be painless.
Perhaps the initiator of the great flood, “fountains of the deep”, reformation of the earth, movement of continents, etc.
An impact like that, here on Earth, would probably embolden the Warmers. “See, we told you so!”
Don’t worry folks... Obama, Nancy and Harry are on top of things... they will bail out JM (Jupiter Motors), Jupiteran banks and insurance companies. Then they will introduce global warming laws, and universal health plans (and don’t you even think about opting out)...
The object that hit Jupiter was definitely not Earth sized, btw, the debris cloud was.
The object could have been an asteriod that got ejected from the asteroid belt, or more likely, a visitor from the Ort cloud or Kuiper belt, out beyond the orbit of Neptune. Every once in while, a piece of rock from out there is perturbed into an orbit that approachs closer to the Sun. When that happens it will soon either be ejected by gravitational interaction with Jupiter and the other gas giants or hit something. The something most likely to get hit is Jupiter, because of his large cross section and because his gravitational field acts like a cometary vacuum cleaner, sucking in anything that comes too close.
We are only now beginning to catalog all the junk out there.
It was the NORTH KOREAN'S new Mile Long Dong missile!
Where was Cheney?
Only if you’re within hundreds of miles of ground zero. The firestorms for the rest of us will be pretty awful. And if you survive those, the resulting starvation will be anything but painless. No hope of anything growing for years — how’s that for terminal desperation.
I suppose Obama-provided suicide could help in this case.
Drunk illegal alien???
An “impact like that” would, of course, mean no more life on earth, ‘cause that impact was the size of earth according to the report.
But hey, you are right, one good strike from a space object here, and the Warmers would say that our climate change attracted the object or something no more ridiculous than the other garbage that spews from them.
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