COMET SL9 HITS JUPITER

An SL-9 impact site on Jupiter, July 6, 1994. Photo by Hubble Space Telescope.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL-9) was a short-period comet that was discovered by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David H. Levy. As the comet passed close by Jupiter, Jupiter's gravitational forces broke the comet apart . Fragments of the comet collided with Jupiter for six days during July, 1994, causing huge fireballs in Jupiter's atmosphere that were visible from Earth.

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[wolfondhizzie]

All the other planets "oh shit were gonna die"

Jupiter "Chill the fuck out I got this"

[AmoralEngineer]

That was chuck norris landing on jupiter

[fairastits]

@wolfondhizzie I like that =)

[tylersaxby]

Jupiter... our big bodyguard :]

[TheGuyWithTheSniper]

@Alfrunk LOLwut

[za909]

@JFMatador It does, but only about 3% of the planet is a solid core but there IS surface on Jupiter. I'm not even sure, it broke into smaller fragments earlier as it was orbiting around Jupiter and since the atmosphere is a lot more dense there it must have gotten hotter as it was going towards the core.

[JFMatador]

if jupiter doesn't have a surface, how did it hit it and make an explosion?

[kieran369]

What the fuck was that ?

[MaGiiKsx]

@italiangamer5 boom NO world* :)

[italiangamer5]

@laurens890 no 100% a small little nickel made the huge whole in mexico , so if they hit us , boom new world

[bandres420]

@wolfondhizzie LOL