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Jupiter Struck by Object, NASA Images Confirm
Foxnews ^ | 7/21/2009 | Staff

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; asteroids; bolide; catastrophism; immanuelvelikovsky; impact; impacts; jupiter; velikovsky; worldsincollision
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To: wolfcreek

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.


21 posted on 07/21/2009 6:18:25 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: MrB

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.


22 posted on 07/21/2009 6:19:01 AM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Empire battle cruiser jettisoning garbage


23 posted on 07/21/2009 6:19:12 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Kozak
“Pretty fricking scary that something that big slammed into Jupiter and we never saw it coming...”

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!

24 posted on 07/21/2009 6:19:15 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: Kozak
Pretty fricking scary that something that big slammed into Jupiter and we never saw it coming...

Look on the bright side, if it happened to earth you would never know it!
25 posted on 07/21/2009 6:19:21 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: Disambiguator

No, no. The meme is now Obama’s fault. It’s time for some revenge.


26 posted on 07/21/2009 6:19:24 AM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

"Did someone mention Uranus?"

27 posted on 07/21/2009 6:20:14 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Giant asteroid slams into Jupiter. Women and minorities hardest hit.


28 posted on 07/21/2009 6:20:23 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: MrB
Have you ever seen the crater at the bottom of the Yucatan Peninsula????

http://hays.outcrop.org/images/keller3e/10_12.jpg
29 posted on 07/21/2009 6:20:27 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: MikeWUSAF

I love how people worry about this! If one hits, it will be painless.


30 posted on 07/21/2009 6:21:29 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Perhaps the initiator of the great flood, “fountains of the deep”, reformation of the earth, movement of continents, etc.


31 posted on 07/21/2009 6:22:21 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: John Leland 1789

An impact like that, here on Earth, would probably embolden the Warmers. “See, we told you so!”


32 posted on 07/21/2009 6:22:30 AM PDT by wolfcreek (KMTEXASA!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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)...


33 posted on 07/21/2009 6:22:49 AM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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To: Disambiguator
Geez...didn't you get the recent talking points memo? Everything is now...

Palin's fault


34 posted on 07/21/2009 6:24:29 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Kozak
Jupiter is still very far away. There are lots of things that cross his orbit that will never come anywhere near Earth. (And vice-versa).

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.


35 posted on 07/21/2009 6:26:37 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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To: Kozak
Pretty fricking scary that something that big slammed into Jupiter and we never saw it coming...

It was the NORTH KOREAN'S new Mile Long Dong missile!

36 posted on 07/21/2009 6:27:31 AM PDT by Huebolt (John Galt does not subscribe to CABLE !)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Where was Cheney?


37 posted on 07/21/2009 6:29:22 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


38 posted on 07/21/2009 6:30:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SJSAMPLE

Drunk illegal alien???


39 posted on 07/21/2009 6:31:38 AM PDT by highnoon (What do you call a crooked lawyer? Judge. Crooked Judge? Senator. Crooked Senator? President)
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To: wolfcreek

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.


40 posted on 07/21/2009 6:31:45 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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