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Showing posts with label 2009 Jupiter impact event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009 Jupiter impact event. Show all posts

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Jupiter's New Spot


Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley from Canberra, Australia captured an image of Jupiter on July 19 showing a possible new impact site. Anthony's image shows a new dark spot in the South Polar Region of Jupiter, at approximately 216° longitude in System 2. It looks very similar to the impact marks made on Jupiter when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the gas giant in 1994.
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