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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.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/07/19/possible-new-impact-on-jupiter/
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) It'd be interesting to see how many humans would survive to serve us.
I mean, just up and hit it. No warning, no reason, just a wild haymaker out of nowhere. Didn't even see the guy.
Man, that's going to leave a spot.
Let's all sing another round of Super Comet Fragment Impact Extra-Large Explosions by Kare and Higgins.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
The gas giants are there to act as a magnet for comets/asteroids etc, so they don't end up near us.
- There is no point, it's like a sphere -
So, I should cancel my plans to land on Europa?
[Insert pithy quote here]
Saturn and Jupiter are the sweepers of the Solar system. They are big, so things hit them instead of us. Think of them as bodyguards... ^_^
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
and a dark spot is noticed on Jupiter...
Now where did i put that monolith...
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
"something may have hit jupiter" and left a black mark...but jupiter inisists she just fell eye-first on the coffee table!
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I found a new dark spot on my pole last week and you don't see me running to the science press about it! media whore!
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Sorry, I could have worded it better. I'm not claiming intelligent design put Jupiter there, merely that Jupiter is doing what Jupiter does, and that this event is nothing out of the ordinary.
Very cool that it was captured (by an Aussie)
- There is no point, it's like a sphere -
Jupiter's been impacted many many times before.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
All these planets are yours
except Europa
Attempt no landi- hang on, what the fu#$(@*$&
NO CARRIER
If it is an impact, then what else is there to compare it to? According to the blogger, there was no sign whatever of the event just 2 days earlier. Can a storm arise that quickly out of nothing? In any case, it seems likely that they will soon be able to determine if it is an impact or not.
If I pay Jupiter to catch rocks, then he has a job.
The math is actually pretty simple to figure this all out.
Given: About 12 weeks ago, Balmer finds out that Netbooks are shipping with Linux.
How much did kinetic energy did the chair possess...
>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)
And the space station toilet is broken. Coincidence?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
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
Yes, but in your rush to denigrate people who believe differently than yourself you did.
When was the last time Jupiter cashed one of his paychecks?
Just like my point-and-shoot camera doesn't care whether something is 100 feet away or several miles away when I manually set it to infinite focus, the Hubble Space Telescope doesn't care whether something is a light second or several billion light years away. It has imaged every planet in the solar system except Mercury (including Earth), has imaged the moon, and once indirectly imaged the sun.
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
Let's all sing another round of Super Comet Fragment Impact Extra-Large Explosions by Kare and Higgins.
Let's not.
Eeriest Slashdot story title of the year?
And I knew I should never have given my girlfriend the keys to the asteroid...
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Just to be pedantic, point-and-shoot cameras (aka focus-free, including the ones in cell phones) are not focused to infinity but rather to the hyperfocal distance
Astronomy is a good example for FOSS. A lot of near Earth low energy astronomy gets done by amateurs in the best sense of the word, those who have a passion for the topic but don't get paid to do it.
The same for other areas such as birding and botany. Often volunteers discover or rediscover rare species and then the pros can come back in and do more in depth studies.
Anywho. Nice job. What ever it turns out to be.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
So? here at Slashdot we make jokes of murderers, pedophiles, recently deceased people, people with disabilities, etc. And if we don't care about *those*, I don't see why we'd care about simple domestic abuse.
Plus, it provides some much-needed relief from the endless 2010 allusions being posted here.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/jupiter.shtml
It's the amateurs that tend to be the first to discover unknown stuff like comets and stuff. The professionals are in general engaged in directed research and do not have the time to be poking around random areas of the sky to see if anything interesting is going on there. As someone mentioned, David Levy is himself an amateur.
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
Many people seem to think that amateur is a synonym for incompetent.
What's worse, many people seem to think that professional is a synonym for competent.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Took me a few second to realized why the south pole is on top of the image. The guy is in Australia.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
He was denigrating a notion, not a group of people. The fact that there exist some people who take criticism of their worldview as a personal attack is a matter for those particular people to come to terms with.
(1.21 gigawatts) / (88 miles per hour) = 30 757 874 newtons
Or, as the german philosopher Schopenhauer famously put it:
Dilletants! Dilletants! - so are called those, who are occupied by a Science or an Art out of love to it, per il loro diletto, with disdain by those who do it for profit, because they love only the money which can be earned by it. This disdain is based on the dastard conviction, that nobody would ever seriously take on a subject if not distress, famine, or another greed urges it. The public is of the same spirit and thus has the same opinion: from here comes his respect for "people of the trade", and his mistrust of amateurs. In reality for the amateur the subject is the goal, for the man of the trade as himself it is only means. Only he will carry on with earnest who is immediately interested in the subject and who is occupied with it out of love. From those, not from the paid servants, the greatest has ever started.
(Sorry for my bad english. I am an amateur after all ;) )
Out of interest, where else have you watched documentaries?
Ant.