1994 (The Jupiter Impact of 2009)

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August 07, 2009

In July of 1994, the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. Exactly 15 years later, in July of 2009, there was another impact. Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley captured the f...

In July of 1994, the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. Exactly 15 years later, in July of 2009, there was another impact. Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley captured the first image of the 2009 impact at his home observatory in Australia. Observatories such as the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Gemini North, Keck, and the Hubble Space Telescope quickly followed up on the discovery, taking astronomers back to those SL9 impact days in 1994.

"1994 (The Jupiter Impact of 2009)"
A parody of Prince's "1999"
Parody lyrics by Kelly Fast

Keyboard, Percussion, Vocals, Editing
Kelly Fast

Camera
John Annen

Many thanks to Joe Harrington for interpreting a line in Kelly's email as a video idea...she never would have realized it otherwise!

Animation of Simulated SL9 Impacts
John Spencer
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~spencer/

IMAGE/MOVIE CREDITS BY LABEL

Wesley 2009
Anthony Wesley
http://jupiter.samba.org/jupiter-impa...

IRTF 2009
NASA/JPL/Infrared Telescope Facility,
Glenn Orton, Leigh Fletcher
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm...

Keck II 2009
Paul Kalas (UCB),
Michael Fitzgerald (LLNL/UCLA),
Franck Marchis (SETI Institute/UCB),
James Graham (UCB)
http://keckobservatory.org/index.php/...
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/re...

Gemini 2009
(permission from Peter Michaud)
Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley),
Heidi B. Hammel (Space Science Institute),
Travis Rector (Univ. of Alaska Anchorage),
Gemini Observatory/AURA
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11300

Hubble (HST) 2009
NASA, ESA,
H. Hammel (Space Science Institute),
and the Jupiter Impact Team
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch...

ESO/TIMMI 1994
Tim Livengood, Ulli Kaüfl, Benoit Mosser

ESO/TIMMI 1994 (Impact H movie)
Tim Livengood, Ulli Kaüfl, Benoit Mosser

Palomar 1994 (Impact R movie)
T. Hayward, P. Nicholson,
C. McGhee, J. Van Cleve (Cornell),
G. Neugebauer, K. Matthews,
A. Weinberger (CalTech)

Hubble (HST) 1994 (SL9 fragments)
Hal Weaver and T. Ed Smith (STScI),
and NASA
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch...

Hubble (HST) 1994 (G impact region)
H. Hammel, MIT and NASA
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch...

Hubble (HST) 1994 (multiple impact regions)
Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team
and NASA
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch...

Hubble (HST) 1994 (D/G impact site evolution)
Credit H. Hammel. MIT and NASA
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/e...

Hubble Space Telescope in orbit
STScI and NASA
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/spacecr...

Galileo 1994
Public Information Office
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/image237...

Photograph of Euguene Shoemaker courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/As...
The USGS home page is http://www.usgs.gov

"1994 (The Jupiter Impact of 2009)"
(parody of Princes "1999")
Parody lyrics by Kelly Fast

At the summit when I wrote this, forgive me but my head is sore.
I feel I'm in a time warp, déjà vu, been here before.
The irritated atmosphere is sporting a familiar bruise.
As with Shoemaker-Levy 9 we know there is no time to lose.

Ju-pi-ter two thousand zero niner, never thought we'd see any more.
But tonight there was an impact as in 1994!

Wesley caught post-impact, observatories rushed to see.
IRTF, Gemini, Keck II and HST.
Morphology and altitude, certainly an impact site.
Spectroscopy and imaging, we'll rock that planet tonight!

Ju-pi-ter two thousand zero niner, never thought we'd see any more.
But tonight there was an impact as in 1994!

Dynamics, photochemistry, there is so much to be learned.
Twice in a lifetime, leave no asteroid or comet unturned.
SL9 was crazy, makes this loner seem so serene.
Still this is something that we wish Gene could have seen.

Ju-pi-ter two thousand zero niner, never thought we'd see any more.
But tonight there was an impact as in 1994!

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jwboll (1 month ago) Show Hide

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...with no social interaction with earthlings.

essy111 (2 months ago) Show Hide

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are they turning jupitor into a sun?

Photomixers (2 months ago) Show Hide

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There is no "they." This was a naturally-occurring event that gives us a chance to understand better the processes that restore and maintain the composition and thermal structure of Jupiter's atmosphere. -- ScienceTim

scienceandreasoniluv (1 month ago) Show Hide

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I think essy111 meant they being the comets not the pixie people.

verticalsmurf (2 months ago) Show Hide

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Hate to be an annoying detail picker, but I am, I'm not a fun person to watch movies with.
Two thousand zero nine would make it 200009. Should have been twenty zero nine.

PhillSpace (3 months ago) Show Hide

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I love songs with happy endings!

BYMYSYD (1 month ago) Show Hide

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need to find this song for my mp3 player!! So when this song randomly pops up on my shuffle play list, it would just bring back random memories.

spacecoke (3 months ago) Show Hide

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lol cool... but i can smell cheese :P

brazilfunk (3 months ago) Show Hide

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Oh, the cheese... (shudder)

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Great!!! Space and Music go very well together in so many ways worth the fun to discover ;-)

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