Jupiter got just hit by something...

[Dan Dixon]

New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-112
[this occurred sometime between 2009-07-19 and 2009-07-20]

Awesome.

[Speaking of things hitting Jupiter:]
Have you seen the Shoemaker-Levy 9 simulation in Universe Sandbox? Open the simulation "Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into Jupiter" to watch the shattered comet impact the planet.
[Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter in July of 1994, almost exactly 15 years ago]

[edited for clarity]

[hbmp88]

Cool. I want to see a video, hope one exists!

[monmarfori]

It collided in between July 16 and July 22, 1994.

[hbmp88]

It collided in between July 16 and July 22, 1994.

-Wrong, this is what it said:

"Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark "scar" had suddenly appeared on Jupiter, this morning between 3 and 9 a.m. PDT (6 a.m. and noon EDT) scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, gathered evidence indicating an impact."

[Bla]

It collided in between July 16 and July 22, 1994.

-Wrong, this is what it said:

"Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark "scar" had suddenly appeared on Jupiter, this morning between 3 and 9 a.m. PDT (6 a.m. and noon EDT) scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, gathered evidence indicating an impact."

I think he's talking about Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Interesting, it would be cool if Jupiter got one more Big Red Spot.

[Chaotic Cow]

Awesome. I wish we could of seen what it was!