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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

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To: BenLurkin

One less asteroid to keep track of. The scientists have been looking for a way to destroy dangerous asteroids. This is it. Just alter the path slightly so that it ultimately runs into a gas giant or the sun before it hits us.


21 posted on 08/09/2019 12:11:15 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Stargazing is going to be fun this weekend. The Moon will be right between Jupiter and Saturn and we should be able to see Antares with the naked eye, too! Head out beyond city lights if you can.

https://earthsky.org/tonight

22 posted on 08/09/2019 12:12:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: BenLurkin

Thankyou for running interference for us Jupiter.


23 posted on 08/09/2019 12:12:48 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Brilliant

Two big gravity wells near the asteroid belt to steer them into Jupiter & Saturn.


24 posted on 08/09/2019 12:13:01 PM PDT by Reily
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To: RandallFlagg

Somehow, some way, the media will say this is Trump’s fault.


25 posted on 08/09/2019 12:14:08 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey, this ain’t San Francisco.


26 posted on 08/09/2019 12:17:11 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: BenLurkin
When the Shoemaker Levy Comet crashed on the Jupiter surface, the images were spectacular.


27 posted on 08/09/2019 12:18:16 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: chud

Like a Venus into Uranus


28 posted on 08/09/2019 12:29:24 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: BenLurkin

Michael Moore was hangliding and got caught in an updraft.


29 posted on 08/09/2019 12:29:40 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Brian Williams was there


30 posted on 08/09/2019 12:31:16 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: BenLurkin

When contacted for comment, Jupiter simply said, “Ah, ‘tis but a flesh wound...”


31 posted on 08/09/2019 12:31:55 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: BuffaloJack
"Thank you for running interference for us Jupiter."

One down, about 150 million to go.

32 posted on 08/09/2019 12:34:44 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: dp0622
Better than something big slamming into Uranus.
We'd never know.

Objects always enter Uranus from behind.

33 posted on 08/09/2019 12:36:35 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: Steely Tom

Yeah, talking extinction-level impact if something like that hit the earth...


34 posted on 08/09/2019 12:40:01 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
It's just not the same without Jack Horkheimer hanging out on Saturn's rings.


35 posted on 08/09/2019 12:43:40 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It would sink us in the corner pocket of the nearest black hole. Then scratch off to Venus or something.


36 posted on 08/09/2019 12:47:43 PM PDT by txhurl (whoa)
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To: Boogieman

“It’s just not the same without Jack Horkheimer hanging out on Saturn’s rings.”

Oh man he was the best! Jack Horkheimer and Art Bell made late nights magical.


37 posted on 08/09/2019 12:49:54 PM PDT by lionstar
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Shoemaker Levy Comet looks like god playing darts and missed the target.


38 posted on 08/09/2019 12:52:56 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

True. Shoemaker-Levy was impressive.

Do we know what the return of the impact point looks like: The shadow or impact cloud at the same spot after one revolution of Jupiter?


39 posted on 08/09/2019 12:54:53 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: dp0622

I just spit out a mouthful of food on the laptop. I’m still laughing!!! Hilarious.


40 posted on 08/09/2019 12:55:02 PM PDT by alabama_heart
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