Impact On Jupiter Observed By Amateur Astronomers 53
Omomyid and other readers send in the news that the bright flash of an impact on Jupiter has been observed — and caught on film — by amateur astronomers. That WMV is from amateur Christopher Go. Here's Anthony Wesley's video (45 MB AVI; the site is already overloaded). In the larger video you can see the impact lasting for a couple of seconds, and a good deal of structure is visible. The amateurs report that no dark debris field developed around the impact site in the time before it rotated out of sight; this may indicate that the impactor burned up high in Jupiter's atmosphere. Soon professional astronomers, and possibly Hubble, will be on the job.
wtf AGAIN (Score:3, Insightful)
Wasn't there a similar impact last year observed around this time as well? /offtopic Coincidentally, I posted about this on my site this morning
Re:wtf AGAIN (Score:1, Insightful)
by the same guy as well! he must have a telescope pointed at jupiter at all times.
I am not an astronomer, but it looks like (Score:2, Insightful)