[granite]

We don't need a sky Czar, OK.

[JRios1968]

Obviously, this is something 0bama inherited from Bush

[MichaelP]

"Jupiter is a big gravitational vacuum cleaner,"

Good for us Earthlings....

Mike

[tm61]

I propose we use stimulus money to run a really long extension cord to jupiter to harness the energy being releaseed by these asteroids.

[OB1kNOb]

Better fireballs on Jupiter than fireballs on Uranus.

[Redleg Duke]

Jovians lighting farts, again?

[GeronL]

I wonder if beaucrats falling into Jupiter would cause a flash?

[onedoug]

Thanks, God, for putting it out there.

[Scythian]

You can have IO, but Jupiter is ours ....

- The Alien

[ducttape45]

Bush’s fault

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Yes, snicker and make merry. Never mind that 1908 Tuguska meteor impact event which leveled 60 square miles of Siberian forest, much less that chimera of a Younger Dryas impact event which wiped out almost all life in North America 13,000 years ago. Return to your homes, there is nothing to fear.

http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/
http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/resource.htm

[Ladysmith]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjnelson/4958713735/

[SunkenCiv]

additional / related / sidebars:

• Third Jupiter Fireball Spotted -- Sky-Watching Army Needed?
• 'Jupiter swallowed planet 10 times the size of Earth'
• Big Fireball on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers
• Something hit Jupiter ... again!
• Largest Comet Outburst Sent "Mini Comets" Flying
• Jupiter: Our Cosmic Protector? (How the planet protects us from cosmic disaster)
• Jupiter Hit by an Astronomical Object
• New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter
• Jupiter Impact Confirmed
• New black spot on Jupiter (asteroid impact?)
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter [July 16 through July 22, 1994]
• Jupiter Increases Risk Of Comet Strike On Earth

[PapaBear3625]

For comparison, that's five to 10 times less energy than the "Tunguska event" of 1908,

One of my pet peeves involves people who say "ten times less" instead of "one tenth" or even "10% of". This usage seems to have started in the last decade or so.