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post Jul 19 2009, 08:13 PM
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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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post Jul 25 2009, 08:51 PM
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Since these impacts are apparently fairly frequent (since we have observed two in a short time) and the "gunk" produced should be fairly stable in the low temperatures prevailing in the upper atmosphere one wonders how much "gunk" accumulates and to what extent it contributes to Jupiter's colourful atmosphere.
I would expect that the molecules will ultimately sink deep enough into the atmosphere for the heat to break them up into simple molecules again, but that should be a slow process.
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post Jul 25 2009, 09:24 PM
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The new images from Hubble are going to be incredible -- does anyone have an idea of how frequently they will be updating?
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- Stu   Jupiter Impact 2009   Jul 19 2009, 08:13 PM
- - tty   Since these impacts are apparently fairly frequent...   Jul 25 2009, 08:51 PM
|- - ups   The new images from Hubble are going to be incredi...   Jul 25 2009, 09:24 PM
|- - 4th rock from the sun   The impact feature is easily visible on small tele...   Jul 25 2009, 11:24 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (ups @ Jul 25 2009, 04:24 PM) The n...   Jul 26 2009, 05:55 PM
- - antipode   Given that the frequency of large impacts may be h...   Jul 26 2009, 02:25 AM
- - Mongo   From the above: We request 7 orbits of HST time t...   Jul 26 2009, 07:56 PM
- - remcook   Another overview site: http://planets.ucf.edu/res...   Jul 30 2009, 03:22 PM
|- - tedstryk   Hubble has just wrapped up its next look. ______...   Aug 9 2009, 12:22 AM
- - PhilCo126   This Friday 14th August, the planet Jupiter will b...   Aug 9 2009, 10:13 AM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Aug 9 2009, 06:13 AM) ...   Aug 10 2009, 07:57 PM
- - Paolo   on arXiv today The impact of a large object with J...   May 14 2010, 07:35 AM
- - Sunspot   http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/r...s/201...   Jun 3 2010, 04:15 PM
- - Tom Tamlyn   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jun 3 2010, 11:15 AM) Ag...   Jun 5 2010, 06:26 AM
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