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Jupiter Has Taken a Massive Meteor Hit (So Earth Didn’t Have To)
Gizmodo ^ | 9/12/12 | Jamie Condliffe

Posted on 09/12/2012 2:41:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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Devastating Impact On Jupiter 9-10-2012

Devastating Impact On Jupiter 9-10-2012

41 posted on 09/12/2012 8:58:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LibWhacker

Jupiter is our friend. All we have to do is leave Europa alone.


42 posted on 09/12/2012 9:00:46 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useful idiots.)
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To: cripplecreek; LibWhacker; Charles Martel; Kartographer; The Toad; fhayek; EagleUSA; Terry Mross; ...

Well said!

Most of the objects which encounter Jupiter get tossed and more often than not leave the Solar System; a much smaller number have their trajectories altered by the big planet such that they will eventually smash into the planet — such was the case with SL9, and probably with this object as well; a tiny fraction wind up encountering Jupiter once or more than once, and their trajectories altered such that they wind up in orbit around it during a future encounter. Jupiter has more than 60 moons, with many of them in retrograde.

Before anyone brings it up as if it’s some kind of cutting criticism, the size of those retrograde moons is entirely beside the point.

Anyway, it’s almost as if the whole thing is a series of random encounters by a inanimate objects. :’)


43 posted on 09/12/2012 9:14:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Another ‘extra, extra’ to APoD members — and pretty soon I’ll catch up on the *actual* APoD posts. [blush]


44 posted on 09/15/2012 10:34:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Good Ol’ Jupiter.

Not just a big useless gasbag after all.


45 posted on 09/15/2012 10:37:56 AM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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and pretty soon I’ll catch up on the *actual* APoD posts. [blush]

Sure thing Mr President. LOL

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46 posted on 09/15/2012 10:50:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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Ow!


47 posted on 09/15/2012 12:30:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The 20th anniversary of the SL-9 impact is coming up this year.


48 posted on 05/18/2014 2:05:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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