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Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter
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.
cleaning up the solar system of random rocky debris. good job!
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
An amateur astronomer puts up pictures on his blog and we're comparing it to Shoemaker-Levy?
Bad Astronomy says "it's jumping the gun to call it an impact event before we get more observations". I've got an idea for the next Slashdot article: "Asteroid heading towards earth - or maybe just spot on lense".
To sweep up debris. He also made the universe appear 13.5 billion years old when upon creation 6000 years ago.
Planets don't have a job. They aren't there to act as a debris sweep even if they do sweep debris.
Wow. You infer fundamentalism, creationism, and a whole lot of other things from just the rather mild comment that gas giants "are there to act as a magnet for comet/asteroids so they don't end up near us". I don't recall the GP saying that God created the Earth in 7 days, that he believes Bishop Usher's creationist timeline, or even that he believes in intelligent design, much less God.
You think maybe, just maybe, he was speaking colloquially? Humorously? Not intending to make a profound statement but rather just shooting the breeze?
How big exactly is that chip on your shoulder? You might want to wipe the foam off your mouth and have a beer or drop a tranq, because you're kind of on hair trigger overload.
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Urectum.
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.
I completely agree.
Why is the "south polar region" on the top? Is that an astronomer thing?