September 9, 2010 - Astronomy.com
Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter's atmosphere June 3 and August 20.
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...Professional astronomers, alerted by e-mail, looked for signs of the impact in images from larger telescopes, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, and Gemini Observatory telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. Scientists saw no thermal disruptions or typical chemical signatures of debris, which allowed them to put a limit on the size of the object.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Jupiter Took a Double Wallop as Amateurs Watched
September 9, 2010 - Space.com
Two fireballs from collisions with Jupiter in June and August provided a great show for the skywatchers who spotted them, packing a punch and suggesting the gas giant could be in for frequent punishment.
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Three days after Wesley and Go detected the fireball, Hueso and his colleagues looked for signs of the impact in high-resolution images from larger telescopes, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini Observatory telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, the Keck telescope in Hawaii, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii, and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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Two fireballs from collisions with Jupiter in June and August provided a great show for the skywatchers who spotted them, packing a punch and suggesting the gas giant could be in for frequent punishment.
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Three days after Wesley and Go detected the fireball, Hueso and his colleagues looked for signs of the impact in high-resolution images from larger telescopes, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini Observatory telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, the Keck telescope in Hawaii, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii, and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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