Asteroid Impact on Jupiter; Anthony Wesley (2010.06.03)

Amateur astronomers Anthony Wesley (whose video this is) of Australia and Christopher Go of the Philippines have independently observed an impact event on Jupiter. The strike occurred at 20:31 UT on June 3rd, 2010 and produced a bright flash of light in the giant planet's cloudtops.

Anthony Wesley: http://acquerra.com.au/astro/
Christopher Go: http://astro.christone.net/

credit: Anthony Wesley (video), NASA (text)

source: http://jupiter.samba.org/jupiter/2010...

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[Saxophonic]

Is it true that, that impact was the size of the pacific ocean?

[djxatlanta]

- the impact that occurred on 6/3/2010 was from a small asteroid estimated at 10 meters (33 feet) across and created a fireball smaller than the 1908 Tunguska event over Siberia. The impact on 8/20/2010 was about the same size. Now the impact that happened on 7/19/2009 was larger -- about 1 kilometer (3,281 feet across)... and it created a fireball about 190 million sq km (73 million sq mi), which is a larger area than the Pacific Ocean.

[SazzieChan]

I hate people like RenownRecon. This things are fasinating.

[djxatlanta]

- different strokes for different folks... some people have more curiosity in the natural world than others. And then there are some Debbie Downers that can't be inspired by anything that involves using brain cells. =)

[ddtwenty]

Very appreciated...

Just one question... if I watch this impact event by 4inch telescope, will I notice the flickering light?

[djxatlanta]

- no. You would need at least a 14-inch telescope, and you would need to be watching Jupiter all night long for months on end to catch an asteroid impact on Jupiter. It's not an every-day occurrence -- probably once every few months.

[Spurfan135]

so thats where my baseball went!

[djxatlanta]

- sweetie, it HAS happened -- and it's been observed three times in the past 13 months, not to mention the comet impact in 1994. I feel sorry for this new generation growing up thinking that everything on YouTube is fake and that there are conspiracies around every corner.

[AndyDufresne987]

Damn those Ruskies again

[reyeguaaah]

Yo no vi q impactara jaja

[piotralski1]

It's time to stop spend money on the greenhouse gas effect, accelerators and other

shit and direct funding for astronomy and space utility.

Bruce Willis may be more useful to people now than nonsenses about the Higgs particle, carbon dioxide emissions

and its influence on glaciers for 1,000 years.

[StevenErnest]

The comment you responded to has been removed, but I get a sad sense of it re fakery and conspiracies.  Even the recent Baumgartner jump had comments here about being "obviously fake" and done with green screen. Skepticism is good, but not when carried to an inane degree. It must have to do with the poor education they received.

[john ediamond]

I am angry about this...I've always been taught through media and education that the gas giants have no solid surface. Just the other day the sky appeared like Neptune, blue with only a few wispy white clouds and I wondered...is this how it looks from ground level or is there a ground?

[Alfred Mayer]

A small correction: 20 times the mass, not 20 times the size. Jupiter's equatorial diameter is only 11 times the earths diameter =)

[Alfred Mayer]

Gas is rock-solid when it's liquid and an object hits it with a speed of 30 kilometers per second :) The core (which cant be affected by an impact directly) could consist of solid materials like rocks and metals. But its very small (ca. 8%) compared to the diameter of the planet.

[BOBtheGREATEREST]

Kinetic energy

It's something that comes up a lot in sci-fi movies and games. Rail guns in particular.