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Jupiter Hit by an Astronomical Object
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| Tuesday, 21 July 2009
| MINA
Posted on 07/21/2009 10:05:28 AM PDT by Osnome
Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark "scar" had suddenly appeared on Jupiter, this morning between 3 and 9 a.m. PDT (6 a.m. and noon EDT) scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, gathered evidence indicating an impact.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; comets; jupiter; science; space
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>>New infrared images show the likely impact point was near the south polar region, with a visibly dark "scar" and bright upwelling particles in the upper atmosphere detected in near-infrared wavelengths, and a warming of the upper troposphere with possible extra emission from ammonia gas detected at mid-infrared wavelengths.
"We were extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," said Glenn Orton, a scientist at JPL.<<
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:05:30 AM PDT
by
Osnome
To: Osnome
It was hit by Odumbo’s sinking poll numbers, coming down from the heavens.
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:10:38 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
("I AM JIM THOMPSON!!!")
To: Osnome
What are the odds that Jupiter would be struck in the same location 15 years later? Astronomical !
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:10:50 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(I AM JIM THOMPSON! qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: Osnome
“My God! It’s full of stars!”
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:12:51 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
To: Osnome
Someone is always hit on Jupiter!
In this case it is Thetis a sea nymph! Ain't politics a hoot!
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:16:53 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: Osnome
OH NO!!!
I have friends that live in Jupiter
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:17:17 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: Osnome
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:17:48 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: theDentist
Jupiter is a very big, like our Federal Deficit.
And like Debt, it sucks in everything around it.
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:18:40 AM PDT
by
Osnome
(Moderation In All Things)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:19:02 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: 50sDad
At least it is not full of black monoliths.
By the way, those were cgi effects in 2010 Space Odyssey II from 1984
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:22:02 AM PDT
by
Osnome
(Moderation In All Things)
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:22:32 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Osnome
comet Willie Shoemaker-Levy 9:
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:24:45 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: 50sDad; All
The early cgi effects used in that film ‘2010’- - the cost and time were so high that in the last scenes of the digital animation of Jupiter, it went to black and white(gray scale).
In the movie they explained that the planet “lost its’ chemical stench”.
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:26:56 AM PDT
by
Osnome
(Moderation In All Things)
To: Osnome
I believe that will make Jupiter eligible for several billion in stimulus money. I mean there is a shovel ready program if there ever was one...filling in that big hole in Jupiter!!
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:28:45 AM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(I live vicariously, through myself.)
To: Osnome
Did Glenn Orton thank Obama? If Bush had still been President, the impact would have happened on the far side of Jupiter and not been visible on earth.
This website is from Greece, so they should be calling the planet Dias (or Zeus).
To: Young Werther
Check out the eagle giving Old Jove the attaboy look!
To: theDentist
I have read that an event like Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Earth happens every century.
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:39:29 AM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
To: Osnome
Jupiter sweeps up a lot of debris in the outer solar system,
almost certainly keeping us alive that much longer.
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:45:34 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: All
State controlled media (SCaM) Headline?
Huge glob of CO2 breaks loose, smashes Jupiter
America Poses Danger For Other Planets
Consensus of all scientists says America to blame.
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posted on
07/21/2009 10:46:40 AM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: from occupied ga
hey I live there too. I mean here. I mean, well, before that astronomical thing hit us.
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posted on
07/21/2009 12:16:40 PM PDT
by
corkoman
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