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Title: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: Naru523 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.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg/180px-Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg)
A picture of the 2009 impact mark captured by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Jupiter_impact_jul2009.jpg/180px-Jupiter_impact_jul2009.jpg)
Large impact observed with Keck II telescope and its near-infrared camera at Mauna Kea on July 20 11:20 UT
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Image_Keck.jpg/180px-Image_Keck.jpg)

"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

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: monmarfori on July 27, 2009, 08:50:39 PM

I know. future like it may collide about the great red spot size.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: atomic7732 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.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: monmarfori on July 27, 2009, 08:53:49 PM

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

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: atomic7732 on July 27, 2009, 08:54:39 PM

Not if it hits the opposite side of Jupiter.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: Dan Dixon on July 27, 2009, 08:56:02 PM

Quote from: monmarfori on July 27, 2009, 08:53:49 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?

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: monmarfori on July 27, 2009, 09:06:33 PM

I know. it occurs in some future centuries or millenniums.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: atomic7732 on July 27, 2009, 09:13:18 PM

And that's why no one else has heard of this how?

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: monmarfori 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.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: FGFG 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.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: Naru523 on July 28, 2009, 11:21:10 AM

It's a scar, not an impact.  :) monmarformi, the asteroid wasn't size as the ocean, the scar was, The Pacific Ocean at least.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: atomic7732 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).

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: FGFG 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 ;)), even if you throw it very fast.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: atomic7732 on July 28, 2009, 01:57:57 PM

What if you threw it 30,000 km/s?

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: FGFG on July 28, 2009, 02:08:19 PM

I don't know :P. But gas is way less dense than water or rock.

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: atomic7732 on July 28, 2009, 02:14:17 PM

Yeah, so it flys out more!

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: FGFG on July 28, 2009, 02:26:06 PM

Or it let solid things pass through it easier ;)

Title: Re: More Infomation: 2009 Jupiter Impact.
Post by: hbmp88 on July 29, 2009, 09:58:48 PM

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