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Something Big Just Slammed Into Jupiter
gizmodo ^
| 08/09/2019
| George Dvorsky
Posted on 08/09/2019 11:56:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An amateur astronomer in Texas captured a rare sight earlier this week when an apparent meteor slammed into Jupiter’s thick upper atmosphere.
On Wednesday, amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel was on the lookout for Perseid meteors, reports ScienceAlert. But his telescope was trained on Jupiter with the camera running. Later, after feeding the data into a software program designed to detect impact flashes, Chappel was alerted to the event.
Looking at the footage, Chappel saw a brief but discernible flash along the western portion of Jupiter’s Southern Equatorial Belt, or SEB.
Later that day, Chappel announced his discovery in a tweet: “Imaged Jupiter tonight. Looks awfully like an impact flash in the SEB.” Chappel released a sharper version of the impact on Thursday, along with a colorized view of the apparent impact.
Imafe: Chappel Astro/Gizmodo
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; jupiter; science
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I know what you reprobates are thinking. No need to go there....
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posted on
08/09/2019 11:56:35 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2019 11:57:16 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: BenLurkin
Better than something big slamming into Uranus.
Just ask some dem presidential prospects.
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posted on
08/09/2019 11:58:43 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: BenLurkin
Has anyone seen Mercury? Is it still there?
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:00:15 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
To: BenLurkin
That guy has a pretty nice telescope and photography setup.
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:01:45 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
To: BenLurkin
Very interesting. It’s great we captured the event.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:02:51 PM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: BenLurkin
IIRC, the Giant Red Spot is about three Earths in diameter, so that flash is several thousand miles across.
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:02:54 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
Has the enemedia blamed Trump yet?
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:03:06 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
To: BenLurkin
Oh, I was thinking somebody let Joe drive his own limo.......
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:03:43 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: BenLurkin
Here it is magnified 4,000 times:
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:04:01 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: BenLurkin
Was Jupiter’s Climate changed?
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:04:57 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
Whatever it was it missed the bull’s eye!
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:05:11 PM PDT
by
cann
To: BenLurkin
Nothing to see here,
move along now
just Earth’s asteroid
defense system
functioning as designed.
7
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:06:36 PM PDT
by
infool7
(Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
To: cann
LOL - now that was funny!
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:06:47 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:08:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: central_va
To: BenLurkin
I know what you reprobates are thinking. No need to go there.... (scrolls down two posts...)
Better than something big slamming into Uranus. Well that didn't take long.
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:08:57 PM PDT
by
chud
To: BenLurkin
My Drone! Never did learn how to control the danm things!
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:09:06 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: BenLurkin
Well, not just hit
light takes about 35 to 52 minutes from Jupiter to Earth
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