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« on: July 27, 2009, 03:06:49 PM »

Hubble image of the scar taken on July 23 showing a blemish of about 5,000 miles long.

A picture of the 2009 impact mark captured by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Large impact observed with Keck II telescope and its near-infrared camera at Mauna Kea on July 20 11:20 UT


"The Wesley impact occurred on Jupiter in July 2009 causing a black spot in the planet's atmosphere, similar in size to the planet's Little Red Spot and about the size of the Pacific Ocean. This impact scar is expected to last only a week or two as it becomes diluted by Jupiter's atmosphere."

Source Images and More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jupiter_impact
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« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 08:50:39 PM »

I know. future like it may collide about the great red spot size.
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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 08:52:29 PM »

Only if the object is big enough. The likelyhood of an object of that siz hitting Jupiter in this stage of our solar system is very, very low.
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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 08:53:49 PM »

If an asteroid hits jupiter with 100 km. The Great Red Spot disappears.
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 08:54:39 PM »

Not if it hits the opposite side of Jupiter.
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 08:56:02 PM »

If an asteroid hits jupiter with 100 km. The Great Red Spot disappears.

Stop making claims that are unsubstantiated. Why do you think this? What evidence do you have for this claim?
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2009, 09:06:33 PM »

I know. it occurs in some future centuries or millenniums.
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2009, 09:13:18 PM »

And that's why no one else has heard of this how?
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« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2009, 01:18:11 AM »

Jupiter is the largest planet. it would be hitten by an asteroid or comet about the size of oceans. like the 2009 impact of July.
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« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2009, 05:18:34 AM »

it wasn't the asteroid big as an ocean, but the crater it left in the Jupiter athmosphere (if we can call it "crater").
However was it predicted? It looks like it was a very big asteroid.
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« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2009, 11:21:10 AM »

It's a scar, not an impact.  Smiley monmarformi, the asteroid wasn't size as the ocean, the scar was, The Pacific Ocean at least.
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« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2009, 11:42:39 AM »

It came in so fast and it flung gas out (obviously lighter than rock) so, it could have been (my guess) about 1-3 km across. Meteor crater was created by a 360 ft asteroid, and the crater is a mile wide. A collison into gas like that, is obviously goig to make a larger "crater" (scar).
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« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2009, 01:49:58 PM »

I don't think so...
It's quite difficult to find an example...

There is a cup full of smog (the best example i can find): if you throw a little stone into the cup (1 cm wide) i don't think that you will have a "scar" of meters wide (it was a very big cup Wink), even if you throw it very fast.
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« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2009, 01:57:57 PM »

What if you threw it 30,000 km/s?
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« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2009, 02:08:19 PM »

I don't know Tongue. But gas is way less dense than water or rock.
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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2009, 02:14:17 PM »

Yeah, so it flys out more!
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« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2009, 02:26:06 PM »

Or it let solid things pass through it easier Wink
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« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2009, 09:58:48 PM »

OK, but what if it went in at a very steep angle. Tongue
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