Bright Fireball Slams into Jupiter
Hot on the heels of last year's asteroid impact on Jupiter, the gas
giant
planet has been smacked once again. In 2009 backyard astronomers saw a
dark
blemish on Jupiter that marked the spot where a space rock had slammed
into the Jovian atmosphere.
This time, Anthony Wesley in Australia and Christopher Go in the
Philippines both saw the actual moment of impact. Photos and video show
the bright
flash as an Earth-size fireball rises above Jupiter's atmosphere on June
3
at 4:31 p.m. ET.
"The data – independently confirmed by two well-respected amateurs –
seem
robust, and the flare certainly bears all the characteristics of a
Jovian 'bolide,' or impact," said Heidi Hammel of the Space Science
Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
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