Amateur Finds New Earth-Sized Blot on Jupiter

[MagickMuffin]

NASA has confirmed the discovery of a new hole the size of the Earth in Jupiter’s atmosphere, apparently showing that the planet was hit by something large in recent days. The impact mark was first spotted on Monday morning by an amateur astronomer in Australia, who then drew the attention of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to the dark mark on Jupiter’s south polar region.

The apparent impact comes almost exactly 15 years after a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter, “sending up blazing fireballs and churning the Jovian atmosphere into dark storms, one of them as large as Earth,” as The New York Times reported on July 19, 1994.


http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/amateur-astronomer-finds-new-earth-size-impact-mark-on-jupiter/?hp

Edit: hit send before I was ready :blush:

I found this very fascinating and wanted to share. Earth Size hole :wow:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Wenn Shoomaker Levy hit, it created several of those

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. I wonder about the spiritual meaning of Levy smashing into Jupiter.

It must have disrupted the planet to a large extent.

[I Have A Dream]

3. I was wondering the same thing, FWWM. nt

[I Have A Dream]

4. Thanks for posting this, MM.

Very interesting. :thumbsup: