Jupiter Impact 2009 |
Jupiter Impact 2009 |
Jul 19 2009, 08:13 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Very interesting observation of a dark mark on Jupiter... it's starting to ripple out across Twitter...
http://www.irishastronomy.org/cms/forum?fu...;id=79644#79647 More info: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/ObsReport...ter-impact.html -------------------- |
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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: 3652 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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Jul 23 2009, 11:33 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-May 08 From: Loughborough Member No.: 4121 |
1) It would probably be harder to spot by an amateur and thus more likely to be missed I'm sure that's true, but the fact that we're just two weeks from the 76th anniversary of film comedian Will Hay doing just that shouldn't go unremarked <insert double take and grimace smiley> http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr//full/seri/MNRA...000085.000.html |
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Jul 24 2009, 12:11 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=12003
The HST observations have begun...the first set wrapped up about four hours ago. -------------------- |
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Jul 24 2009, 07:17 AM
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http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=12003 The HST observations have begun...the first set wrapped up about four hours ago. I'm assuming that with Hubble still in it's recommissioning phase and images not supposed to be released until some time in September we are unlikely to see these observations for some time?? EDIT: OK just saw this at spaceflight now http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/24hubble/ "Engineers programmed Hubble to spend a few hours observing Jupiter Thursday afternoon. Imagery of Jupiter could be released by late Friday, according to Ray Villard, spokesperson for the Space Telescope Science Institute." |
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