Huge Jupiter "Impact" Recorded - 10 Sep 2012

[mrmr96]

Check out this video:
http://www.wimp.com/jupiterhit/

Then look how big that "event" is compared with Earth, I'd say it's almost as big as Earth.


Anyone have any more info on what it was? An impact? A storm?

National Geographic said this:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/12...

I just thought it was interesting.

[rxtx]

That is interesting, good video.

[Eric Mc]

Thanks for this. These impacts are obviously a lot more frequent than was once thought.

However, it is interesting that a debris field or cloud scar has not been spotted since the "impact" happened. All impacts observed so far have left a black spot in the clouds which, over the course of the following few days or weeks disappeared.

Could this flash have ben the result of an internal meteorological event - such as a massive lightning discharge - rather than the impact of a comet or meteor? The flash does seem to have set off a ripple effect of subsidiary flashes - which can happen with lightning.

[Puggit]

I'm with Eric, my first thought was meteorological...

[scubadude]

Looks very similar to lightening seen on Saturn... covered a big area though.

[Nom de ploom]

doesn't appear to be an impact.

was there ever any decent footage of the shoemaker levy 9 impact?

[rxtx]

Puggit said:

I'm with Eric, my first thought was meteorological...

Definitely looks that way. I wouldn't want to be underneath an Earth-sized storm

[Eric Mc]

Nom de ploom said:

doesn't appear to be an impact.

was there ever any decent footage of the shoemaker levy 9 impact?

Yes there was.

From earth, the impact points were around the limb of the planet so out of sight - just. Within minutes of each impact, because of Jupiter's fast rotation, the impact sites rotated into view - showing the holes punched in the cloud decks by each segment of the comet and the resultant debris.

In 1994, the Galileo space probe was part way to the planet and therefore had a different line of sight which allowed it to record, using infra-red camera, the actual impacts and explosions.

This is one of the Galileo images.

[jmorgan]

Reading an article recently where many amateur astronomers have been recording impacts on Jupiter. Meaning there are more than previously thought as a lot of the official stuff is looking else where and had not noticed (if memory serves me).

[Art0ir]

Fascinating. The sheer scale of these events puts human life into perspective.

[jmorgan]

I picked up on comments in articles many years ago that called Jupiter the Solar Systems hoover and our saviour. Now we know it is also the cause of many impacts on Earth.....

[hornet]

If we say it's Nibiru, do you think the 2012 doomers will shut up and go away? That aside, fascinating stuff, whatever it is.

[PeanutHead]

Looking at the cloud break, is that something leaving the surface.

[jmorgan]

You could try to say Niburu has been sucked up by Jupiter.......


But the wilfully ignorant and those where the stupid is strong will still believe. The irony is we may well get wiped out but it will not be the predicted (sorry, wrong word there, but you know) idiotic niburu.

Some of the images from Mars are showing recent impacts. That is a picture of an area they took a few years ago gets another photo opertunity and it shows an impact. We are still in the firing line.

These are the known ones.
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Worldmap....

And we have a lot of ocean......

[Eric Mc]

Phew - they've missed Britain and Ireland.