Posted by
michael
on from the not-a-fox-special dept.
FortKnox writes: "The two Jovians on the planet Jupiter have been 'arguing' for a while, and are about to collide. The article is descriptive and explains what happened the last time something like this happened, plus pictures. Time to get out your telescopes..."
Re:What On Earth?
by
FortKnox
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Jovians don't appear on earth, IIRC.
Jovians are similar to hurricanes, but aren't the same. Not to mention that the 'smaller' Jovian is about the size of the earth, and its colliding with an ENORMOUS one (A *lot* bigger than it).
This has happened before on Jupitor (read the article), but I dunno about earth...
I guess the closest thing to this on earth would be that 'the perfect storm' movie. Isn't that about large storms colliding (and based on a true story)?
I hate imprecise science reporting...
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Linux_ho
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Both are said to operate similarly to hurricanes on Earth, except that they rotate in the opposite direction compared with terrestrial storms.
Winds in terrestrial hurricanes normally rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere because of the Coriolis effect.
So... in an attempt to translate the above quoted statement into something with a hint of precision, I'm going to guess that the Jovian storms are probably anticyclonic (high pressure systems, unlike terrestrial hurricanes), which would reverse the rotational direction of the storm.
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Jovians don't appear on earth, IIRC.
Jovians are similar to hurricanes, but aren't the same. Not to mention that the 'smaller' Jovian is about the size of the earth, and its colliding with an ENORMOUS one (A *lot* bigger than it).
This has happened before on Jupitor (read the article), but I dunno about earth...
I guess the closest thing to this on earth would be that 'the perfect storm' movie. Isn't that about large storms colliding (and based on a true story)?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
So... in an attempt to translate the above quoted statement into something with a hint of precision, I'm going to guess that the Jovian storms are probably anticyclonic (high pressure systems, unlike terrestrial hurricanes), which would reverse the rotational direction of the storm.
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