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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