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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomething just hit Jupiter
While we Earthlings were fretting about the California recall, the Universe had other stuff to do.
On Monday, September 13, at about 6:39 P.M. Eastern, Harald Paleske of Germany and José Luis Pereira of Brazil both caught on video a pretty significant object impacting the surface of Jupiter. From the size of the impact, a rough guess is an asteroid or comet a few hundred feet wide. Thats no slouch; a hit by something that size on Earth would leave a crater about a mile wide.
A still frame from Paleske captures this nicely:
Paleske doesnt seem to have posted his video yet, but Pereira has. Here too you can see Ios shadow and the impact at about the same latitude. Zoinks!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/15/2052426/-Something-just-hit-Jupiter
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Something just hit Jupiter (Original Post)
Zorro
Sep 2021
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Way to go Jup! Sucking in and cleaning the solar system of trash and keeping it away from us
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
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Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)1. Way to go Jup! Sucking in and cleaning the solar system of trash and keeping it away from us
Iggo
(47,558 posts)2. Saved us again. Thanks, Jupiter!
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)3. Death Star test fire?
Those pesky rebels are in trouble!
LudwigPastorius
(9,148 posts)4. Where would we be without our Cosmic Roomba?
Not here, that's for sure.
applegrove
(118,673 posts)7. LOL!
calimary
(81,295 posts)5. COOL!!!
ZonkerHarris
(24,228 posts)6. Jupiter is a cosmic fullback blocking for us