Amateur Astronomers Spot Jovian Blast

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @05:30AM from the that-is-awesome dept.

RocketAcademy writes "Spaceweather.com reports an explosion on Jupiter, which was detected by two amateur astronomers. According to Spaceweather.com, the event occurred at 11:35 Universal Time on September 10. Dan Peterson of Racine, Wisconsin, observing through a 12-inch Meade telescope, observed a white flash lasting for 1.5-2 seconds. George Hall of Dallas, Texas was capturing a video of Jupiter at the time, which also captured the event. It's believed that the explosion was due to a comet or small asteroid collision. Similar events were observed in the past, in June and August 2010."

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Where's the Kaboom? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-11 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Jupiter-shattering kaboom!
One thing I love about astronomy... by osu-neko · 2012-09-11 05:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

One of the places where amateurs still make many observations and discoveries.

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Re:random thoughts... by Hatta · 2012-09-11 06:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

we are overdue
Statistics do not work that way!

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