Something just hit Jupiter

[Zorro]

While we Earthlings were fretting about the California recall, the Universe had other stuff to do.

On Monday, September 13, at about 6:39 P.M. Eastern, Harald Paleske of Germany and José Luis Pereira of Brazil both caught on video a pretty significant object impacting the surface of Jupiter. From the size of the impact, a rough guess is an asteroid or comet a few hundred feet wide. That’s no slouch; a hit by something that size on Earth would leave a crater about a mile wide.

A still frame from Paleske captures this nicely:


Paleske doesn’t seem to have posted his video yet, but Pereira has. Here too you can see Io’s shadow and the impact at about the same latitude. Zoinks!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/15/2052426/-Something-just-hit-Jupiter

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

1. Way to go Jup! Sucking in and cleaning the solar system of trash and keeping it away from us

[Iggo]

2. Saved us again. Thanks, Jupiter!

[qazplm135]

3. Death Star test fire?

Those pesky rebels are in trouble!

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Where would we be without our Cosmic Roomba?

Not here, that's for sure.

[applegrove]

7. LOL!

[calimary]

5. COOL!!!

[ZonkerHarris]

6. Jupiter is a cosmic fullback blocking for us