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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: Bratch
lol
Some of the gases that escape from Uranus are very unusual.
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:55:15 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: BenLurkin
Just be thankful our solar system has such gas giants way out there sucking up cosmic projectiles.
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:56:35 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: alabama_heart
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posted on
08/09/2019 12:59:03 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: BenLurkin
Considering how big Jupiter is that was some massive asteroid that hit the planet.
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posted on
08/09/2019 1:05:24 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2019 1:12:10 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(“They are openly planning to murder you. Have a plan to prevent that.”)
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps Marianne Williamson can update her charts to reflect this event...
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posted on
08/09/2019 1:28:13 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: BenLurkin
We should be happy that Jupiter is the solar system’s vacuum cleaner. Otherwise these “things” would be flying all over the place.
To: Steely Tom
I took the wrong exit on the freeway.
Sorry y’all.
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posted on
08/09/2019 1:52:57 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
To: Reily
Or deflect them toward us
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posted on
08/09/2019 1:56:23 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal I was born to rebel.)
To: BenLurkin
Dang it.
Hello. GalactUber, please send another driver. And make sure this one can navigate.
Now I’ll never make the appointment on time. Why do all the best doctors have to be on Arcturus?
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:02:54 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: BenLurkin
I know what you reprobates are thinking. Hey! I prefer to be called deplorable.
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:06:23 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Steely Tom
The Great Red Spot’s diameter is just over 10K miles. The flash in the photo is 7/40ths the diameter of the Spot. Therefore the flash created by the impact of the object - meteor, asteroid, comet, whatever - seems to have been nearly two thousand miles in diameter. The 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s .62 miles in diameter pieces left much larger splotches in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, so the thing that left this more recent mark may be inferred to have been significantly smaller.
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:08:11 PM PDT
by
earglasses
(I was blind, and now I hear...)
To: BenLurkin
reprobates?
What’s that? Like...um... reproductively masturbating ?
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:08:36 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Boogieman
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:11:27 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
To: infool7
"Nothing to see here, move along now just Earth’s asteroid defense system functioning as designed."
Agree 100%. It's amazing how much detail there is in nature and astronomy showing that we're not here by accident. That only a Creator could have set so many things just right to make advanced life able to exist.
If Jupiter were too close we'd have too much tectonic activity here on Earth. But if it was too far away it would be able to be our protective big brother and pull cosmic objects into its massive gravity well for us.
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:27:57 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Boogieman
“Greeting, Greetings, fellow Stargazers
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:31:24 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:34:26 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(RIP T.P.)
To: BenLurkin
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER.
USE THEM IN PEACE.
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:36:14 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Should be able to see Antares in the city too. I have.
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:39:05 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: cuban leaf
I saw it in it’s lasts evening apparation in May/June. It had a close conjunction with Mars.
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posted on
08/09/2019 2:42:40 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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