[AnimeThat]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090721/lf_nm_life/us_jupiter_asteroid
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) – A large comet or asteroid has slammed into the Jupiter, creating an impact site the size of Earth, pictures by an Australian amateur astronomer show.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the discovery using its large infrared telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, said computer programer Anthony Wesley, 44, who discovered the impact zone while stargazing at home.

News of Wesley's find on a backyard 14.5-inch reflecting telescope has stunned the astronomy world, with scientists saying the impact will last only days more.

Wesley said it took him 30 minutes to realize a dark spot rotating in Jupiter's clouds on July 19 was actually the first impact seen by astronomers since a comet collided with the giant planet in July 1994.

"I thought (it) likely to be just a normal dark polar storm," he said on his website www.acquerra.com.au/astro.

"However as it rotated further into view and the conditions improved I suddenly realized that it wasn't just dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot," Wesley said from his home at Murrumbateman, north of Canberra.

Photographs show the impact zone, or "scar," near Jupiter's south polar region, with gases seen in infrared images.

"We are extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," NASA JPL scientist Glenn Orton told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

Orton confirmed the spot was an impact site and not a localized weather event in Jupiter's swirling surface, similar to the planet's famed red spot.

[joe-salton]

Dont tell me this man im paranoid at the best of times[yes]

[Orefsmisits]

Damn, too bad, looks like thegecko missed his fifteen minutes. Oh well, he will probably create three threads telling us about it.

[UTHZzJ6f]

I actually got this first lol. I managed to get it as it was coming round from the limb

[joe-salton]

I actually got this first lol. I managed to get it as it was coming round from the limb

sorry but[rofl][rofl]

[UTHZzJ6f]

sorry but[rofl][rofl]

Oh, lets see yours then.

[Theariwinna]

Not much else to do in Murrumbatemen!

[joe-salton]

Oh, lets see yours then.

I will say this once more now pin back your lug holes, I is not gay, thankyou and goodbye

[UTHZzJ6f]

I will say this once more now pin back your lug holes, I is not gay, thankyou and goodbye

Again place is full of morons trying to be smart arse's, do everyone a favour and ****off.

[joe-salton]

Again place is full of morons trying to be smart arse's, do everyone a favour and ****off.

[rofl][rofl] k[thumbup][rofl][thumbup]

Didums just because someone got there first

[Orefsmisits]

Again place is full of morons trying to be smart arse's, do everyone a favour and ****off.

I still can't believe you are 30.

[Uciaucrx]

I actually got this first lol. I managed to get it as it was coming round from the limb

Maybe you photographed it first, but you didn't know what it was.

[Speareerfug]

Again place is full of morons trying to be smart arse's, do everyone a favour and ****off.

Holy PMS batman!

Did you run out of light days?

[ttiokjbnhjjillp]

Oh, lets see yours then.

here you go,
taken this with a rebuilt Canon IxusI with a bulit on magnifying glass




Could have been better, but hey all in all im on a low budget

[UTHZzJ6f]

here you go,
taken this with a rebuilt Canon IxusI with a bulit on magnifying glass

Could have been better, but hey all in all im on a low budget

lol [thumbup]

[ttiokjbnhjjillp]

lol [thumbup]

So envious yet ?
I even got high end pics of two greys getting it on in the horseshoe nebula.
That´s a keeper i tell ya.

[c6vkuNRg]

here you go,
taken this with a rebuilt Canon IxusI with a bulit on magnifying glass




Could have been better, but hey all in all im on a low budget

[thumbup]

[allaboutauto.us]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090721/...piter_asteroid

I think that is the link you need.....


And holy sh*t glad that didn't hit earth

[womberte]

Some nice images here too:

http://jupiter.samba.org/jupiter-impact.html

[Lyikmcmb]

Does Jupiter have solid ground? I heard that when a planet becomes to big it's unable to hold mass or something and turns into a gas planet. And I also remember watching a small documentary of Nasa sending a satelite into Jupiter and it never hit gorund it just burnt up.

Also why does Jupiter look the way it does? Why does it have different colours in sets of lines? I know the planet is very stormy but what makes the colours set in those particular places and not bunched together?