Space news: Fireballs light up Jupiter

Lake County News ^ | Sunday, 12 September 2010 | Written by Dr. Tony Phillips

[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?

[EEDUDE]

Amen to that brother! Fireballs on Uranus are a real pain.

[GeronL]

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

[onedoug]

Thanks, God, for putting it out there.

[Red Badger]

fireballs on Uranus? Problem solved...

[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/

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice photo....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach. This is an update of an earlier story or two. :')

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[Cvengr]

Laugh-a-while you can, Monkey-Boy!!!!

[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

[BenLurkin]

“Jupiter is a big gravitational vacuum cleaner,”

And a good thing, too.

In our search of the galaxy, any truly “earth like” planet will nedd one of their own.

[BenLurkin]

“Jupiter Increases Risk Of Comet Strike On Earth”

I’m not buying it.