Jupiter Impact 2009 |
Jupiter Impact 2009 |
Jul 20 2009, 08:19 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
I think the forum might enjoy this, one of my favourite bits from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series:
QUOTE People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the center of their heads. When gods get together they tell the story of one particular planet whose inhabitants watched, with mild interest, huge continent-wrecking slabs of ice slap into another world which was, in astronomical terms, right next door—and then did nothing about it because that sort of thing only happens in Outer Space. An intelligent species would at least have found someone to complain to. Anyway, no one seriously believes in that story, because a race quite that stupid would never even have discovered slood. |
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Jul 20 2009, 08:32 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Jul 20 2009, 09:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Yeah, some of those other images have really convinced me. You can clearly see a reddish plume deposit to the west and north of the impact site (or sites), akin to what was seen at many of the SL9 impacts.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Jul 20 2009, 09:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 21-April 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 347 |
Hi,
A nice place to check for updated daily planetary images is: http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/Latest/Jupiter.htm Very good images there, including methane one from earlier days. -------------------- _______________________
www.astrosurf.com/nunes |
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Jul 20 2009, 10:00 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
A nice place to check for updated daily planetary images is: http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/Latest/Jupiter.htm Now that's a v useful site to keep an eye on, thanks! :-) -------------------- |
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Jul 20 2009, 10:20 AM
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I've often wondered why we see so few planetary images from professional ground based observatories?? The quality of images from amateurs with 10-14" scopes is breathtaking these days, I wonder what this "impact" would look like with a 8 or 10 metre class telescope.
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Jul 20 2009, 10:23 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 21-April 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 347 |
Yes, the ALPO Japan Planetary Section it's full of great stuff. For example, there are updated planetary maps and the "database" goes back some years. All amateur work but very organized and well documented.
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Jul 20 2009, 11:51 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
From Twitter: "Glenn Orton from JPL is imaging the Jupiter impact site now w/ the NASA Infrared Telescope & he's confirmed it's an impact!!"
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Jul 20 2009, 12:40 PM
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can you give me the link the the twitter sites your using?
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Jul 20 2009, 12:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1441 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Die! Die! Watch them die!
QUOTE ("Sunspot") can you give me the link the the twitter sites your using? A quick Google search of the quoted text quickly reveals that it came from this Twitter. http://twitter.com/mikesalway -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Jul 20 2009, 07:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Too bad it wasn't Saturn.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jul 20 2009, 08:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
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Jul 20 2009, 08:19 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10184 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
EGD: "Too bad it wasn't Saturn. "
Very good point! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jul 20 2009, 08:26 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Jul 20 2009, 08:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Would we be able to measure the temperatue and cross-referencing the decay with SL-9 data come up with a rough impact time? Which would then show us if it was the Earth-facing hemisphere or not - not that it would be a terribly useful piece of info.
Regarding a Saturn impact - two things: 1) It would probably be harder to spot by an amateur and thus more likely to be missed 2) I'm not sure Cassini could be retargeted so quickly anyway. It's running sequences preprogrammed weeks if not months ahead. -------------------- |
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