Has a Comet Hit Jupiter?


	Has a Comet Hit Jupiter?

tabsey

7-21-2009 8:18 AM

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7-21-2009 10:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8fd65cb3-cd1d-415e-b8f8-c9838892f70a/218CC291-007F-4CC6-AED0-21ED4C3A242B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html" href="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html"><SPAN>This is a little too mystical for my tastes, but on the cusp
of Walter Cronkite’s passing, and the Apollo 11 moon landing 40th anniversary, a mysterious
dark spot has appeared on Jupiter.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><SPAN>The dark feature was first observed at approximately
13:30 universal time today</SPAN><SPAN> by amateur astronomer Anthony
Wesley from his home observatory just outside Murrumbateman NSW Australia.
Wesley photographed Jupiter through a 14.5 inch Newtonian reflector. </SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovery.com/img/8FF3B297-4C62-4EA6-AD41-8A7257577D9E" alt="Jupiter spot" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html"><SPAN>The explanation for this one is a bit more down to Earth, per the observer’s posting tonight: </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html"><SPAN>“Preliminary image showing a black mark in
Jupiters South Polar Region (SPR) which is almost certainly the result of a
large impact - either an asteroid or comet - similar to the Shoemaker-Levy
impacts in 1994.”</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/has-a-comet-hit-jupiter.html"><SPAN>Let me caution that as of this writing the spot has not been
reported being sighted independently by anyone else. Also, it is too near the pole to be a satellite
shadow, and also moves with the planet’s rotation according to Wesley.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/218CC291-007F-4CC6-AED0-21ED4C3A242B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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