FIREBALL ON JUPITER

[Amy Evans]

FIREBALL ON JUPITER: On August 20th at 18:22 UT, amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa of Kumamoto city, Japan, video-recorded an apparent impact on Jupiter. Click on the image to view a movie of the fireball:

This is the third time in only 13 months that amateur astronomers have detected signs of impact on Jupiter. The earlier events occured on July 19, 2009, and June 3, 2010. This weekend's impact, if that's what it was, has not been confirmed by multiple observers, but it resembles the uncontroversial impact of June 3, 2010, and appears to be genuine.

"Like the event of June 3rd, this fireball did not produce any visible debris," notes John Rogers, director of the British Astronomical Association's Jupiter section. "Here are some hi-resolution images taken 1-2 rotations before and 1-2 rotations after the event. As the observers commented, there was no visible mark (not in RGB, nor UV, nor methane), post-impact. Dark brown spots on the North Equatorial Belt were already there before the fireball."

Stay tuned for updates!

http://spaceweather.com/

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... 3rd time in 13 months, and in almost the same place as projected for the Brown Dwarf ..................................

[john miller]

Teresa here is a link, http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/22/4950910-another-new... , check it out.

[john miller]

This picture of Jupiter seems to be upside down. The Red Spot storm is suppose to be in the southern hemisphere. Where the brown stripe went missing, in April. This picture shows the storm in the northern hemisphere with the brown stripe missing. Not right or Jupiter flipped.

[edina]

Thanks, simply, thanks

[Amy Evans]

difficult ... but it has to be done, and will be done ... we are almost finished reviewing the package and will be getting back with more details soon ...

[edina]

Thanks Amy, for finding info on Jupiter, you are, indeed, a very considerate person. How is it going, getting this info out to all the various places you're connected to?

And, are you seeing people become responsive to it? My support goes with you, in all that you are doing here, and in other places to help people!!!

[Amy Evans]

Not sure on that one ... but this seems to be the race trac, so to speak for junk that is ahead of, and behind of the Dwarf and its 6 moons. This thing has stuff it drags around with it in it's 3,600 year orbit.