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Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter

Posted by kdawson on from the jumbo-size-clearasil dept.

The blog of Anthony Wesley, an Australian amateur astronomer, has what may be the first photos of a recent comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter, near the south pole. These photos are 11 hours old. The ones at the bottom of the page show three small dark spots in addition to the main dark mark. The Bad Astronomy blog picked up the story a few hours later — but cautions that what we're seeing may not be an impact event. This is all reminiscent of the closely watched impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter in 1994.

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  1. Alternate site for slashdotted article by Romancer · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.universetoday.com/2009/07/19/possible-new-impact-on-jupiter/

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  2. Re:Or may not have by Aussie · · Score: 5, Informative

    >An amateur astronomer puts up pictures on his blog and we're comparing it to Shoemaker-Levy?

    Levy is an amateur, his degree is in english lit. He won an amateur astronomers award.

    (what I tried to post last time, bloody web2 crap)

  3. new site jupiter.samba.org by tridge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anthony's webserver has been slashdotted, but
    he has copied the files to:

        http://jupiter.samba.org/

    He is now trying to login to his server so he
    can redirect the pages to the above site.

    As well as being an amateur astronomer, Anthony
    is a keen Linux enthusiast. His home built
    telescope is controlled by his Linux box.

    Cheers, Tridge

  4. please use new URL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can the slashdot admins please move the link in the story to the new site? I can't even log into my box to put the redirect in place...

    http://jupiter.samba.org/

    Thanks again Tridge, you're a lifesaver

    Anthony