Jupiter impact last night

[Mojocvh]

Spotted by Aussie Anthony Wesley and recorded by Christopher Go in Manilla...caught whilst chris was recording in the blue channel..

http://astro.christone.net/jupiter/jupiterimpact.w...

a rather large feather in their respective caps and also one for amateur astronomers too..

[The Black Flash]

Wow, thanks for posting.
That was pretty big, whatever it was.

[Mojocvh]

The Black Flash said:

Wow, thanks for posting.
That was pretty big, whatever it was.

I'm sure someone is bound to come along and give some accurate indication, I'm thinking roughly Pluto sized about a diameter the size of Australia...??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment...

Edited by Mojocvh on Friday 4th June 18:18

[MiniMan64]

It's a funny old thing isn't it, you watch that and it doesn't look that impressive at first and then you remember the scale of what you are seeing and it's staggering. If something that big hit us and made that kind of splash we'd all be toast.

[jmorgan]

And the Solar Sytems hoover does it again.




Ouch.

[itsnotarace]

MiniMan64 said:

If something that big hit us and made that kind of splash we'd all be toast.

Indeed. And given that nobody knew this was coming, makes you wonder how much notice we'd get

[jmorgan]

You could lose some sleep over this but wotcha gona do about it.....
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/

[Mojocvh]

jmorgan said:

And the Solar Sytems hoover does it again.




Ouch.

Yes mate it does make you think....

[phil-sti]

thats why people believe in the rare earth theory

[Ledaig]

Living with the parents for a couple of months while between houses has it's interesting points.

Just mentioned this to Mum - big asteroid, scar the size of the pacific ect....

Me:"Could you imagine if that hit the Earth?"

Mum: "oooh....well I suppose it might effect the weather for a bit"

Bless

[MiniMan64]

itsnotarace said:

MiniMan64 said:

If something that big hit us and made that kind of splash we'd all be toast.

Indeed. And given that nobody knew this was coming, makes you wonder how much notice we'd get

None at all, just be thankful we don't have Jupiters gravity well.

[jmorgan]

MiniMan64 said:

itsnotarace said:

MiniMan64 said:

If something that big hit us and made that kind of splash we'd all be toast.

Indeed. And given that nobody knew this was coming, makes you wonder how much notice we'd get

None at all, just be thankful we don't have Jupiters gravity well.

Ah, but what can it affect that will be thrown at us, doesn't have to sink into the planet?

[Silver993tt]

Mojocvh said:

The Black Flash said:

Wow, thanks for posting.
That was pretty big, whatever it was.

I'm sure someone is bound to come along and give some accurate indication, I'm thinking roughly Pluto sized about a diameter the size of Australia...??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment...

Edited by Mojocvh on Friday 4th June 18:18

"That is why some 500m-wide space rock plunging into the gas giant's atmosphere was rather unexpected, said astronomer Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study."

[rhinochopig]

Are you sure that's an impact