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Hubble image of the scar taken on 23 July 2009 during the
2009 Jupiter impact event , showing a blemish of about 8,000 kilometres long.
[1]
In
recorded history , the planet
Jupiter has experienced
impact events and has been probed and photographed by several
spacecraft .
Impact
Notable Jupiter impact events
Event
Date (UTC)
Rough original size (meters)
Latitude (°)
Longitude (°)
Discoverer(s)
Aug 2023 event
[2]
2023/08/28 16:45
?
?
?
?
Oct 2021 event
[3]
[4]
2021/10/15 13:24
?
+20
201
Ko Arimatsu
Sep 2021 event
[5]
2021/09/13 22:39:30
?
−5.5
105.7
José Luis Pereira
Apr 2020 event
[6]
2020/04/10
1-4
?
?
Juno team
Aug 2019 event
[7]
2019/08/07 04:07
?
?
?
Ethan Chappel
May 2017 event
[8]
[9]
2017/05/26 19:25
12
+51
?
Sauveur Pedranghelu
Mar 2016 event
[8]
[10]
2016/03/17 00:18:33
15
?
?
John McKeon
Sep 2012 event
[8]
[11]
2012/09/10 11:35:00
30
+2
345
Dan Peterson
Aug 2010 event
[8]
[12]
2010/08/20 18:22:12
10
+11
?
Masayuki Tachikawa Aoki Kazuo
Jun
2010 Jupiter impact event
[13]
2010/06/03 20:31:20
13
?
?
Anthony Wesley
Jul
2009 Jupiter impact event
[14]
2009/07/19 13:30
200–500
−57
55
Anthony Wesley
Jul 1994
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
[15]
1994/07/16 20:13:16 – 1994/07/22 08:06:16
1800
varies for each fragment
varies for each fragment
Carolyn Shoemaker
Eugene Shoemaker
David Levy
Mar 1979 event
[16]
1979/03/05 17:45:24
?
?
?
Voyager team
Spacecraft entry
Galileo spacecraft entry – September 21, 2003
Galileo probe entry – December 7, 1995
Spacecraft orbit
Spacecraft flybys
References
^ Dennis Overbye (24 July 2009).
"Hubble Takes Snapshot of Jupiter's 'Black Eye' " .
The New York Times . Retrieved 6 June 2010 .
^ Jones, Andrew (31 August 2023).
"Amateur astronomers spot new impact on Jupiter" . Space.com . Retrieved 31 August 2023 .
^ Bartels, Meghan (21 October 2021).
"Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers" . Space.com . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
^ King, Bob (18 October 2021).
"Jupiter Whacked Again? Japanese Astronomers Record Possible Impact" . Sky & Telescope . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
^ King, Bob (14 September 2021).
"Amateur Spots Possible New Impact Flash at Jupiter" . Sky & Telescope . Retrieved 14 September 2021 .
^ Giles, Rohini S.; Greathouse, Thomas K.; Kammer, Joshua A.; Gladstone, G. Randall; Bonfond, Bertrand; Hue, Vincent; Grodent, Denis C.; Gérard, Jean-Claude; Versteeg, Maarten H.; Bolton, Scott J.; Connerney, John E. P.; Levin, Steven M. (8 February 2021). "Detection of a bolide in Jupiter's atmosphere with Juno UVS". Geophysical Research Letters . 48 (5): e91797.
arXiv :
2102.04511 .
Bibcode :
2021GeoRL..4891797G .
doi :
10.1029/2020GL091797 .
S2CID
231855339 .
^ Mack, Eric.
"Jupiter just got slammed by something so big we saw it from Earth" . CNET . Retrieved 2019-08-09 .
^
a
b
c
d R. Hueso; M. Delcroix; A. Sánchez-Lavega; S. Pedranghelu; G. Kernbauer; J. McKeon; A. Fleckstein; A. Wesley; J.M. Gómez-Forrellad; J.F. Rojas; J. Juaristi (2018). "Small impacts on the giant planet Jupiter". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 309 : 277–296.
arXiv :
1804.03006 .
Bibcode :
2018Icar..309..277B .
doi :
10.1016/j.icarus.2018.03.012 .
S2CID
119397579 .
^ King, Bob (28 May 2017).
"New Impact Flash Seen on Jupiter" . Sky & Telescope . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
^ Malik, Tariq (29 March 2016).
"Jupiter Just Got Hit by a Comet or Asteroid ... Again (Video)" . Space.com . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
^ Malik, Tariq (11 September 2012).
"Explosion on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers" . Space.com . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
^ Shiga, David.
"Jupiter attacked for third time in 13 months" . New Scientist . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
^ Hueso, R.; Wesley, A.; Go, C.; Pérez-Hoyos, S.; Wong, M. H.; Fletcher, L. N.; Sánchez-Lavega, A.; Boslough, M. B. E.; de Pater, I.; Orton, G. S.; Simon-Miller, A. A.; Djorgovski, S. G.; Edwards, M. L.; Hammel, H. B.; Clarke, J. T.; Noll, K. S.; Yanamandra-Fisher, P. A. (1 October 2010).
"First Earth-Based Detection of a Superbolide on Jupiter" . The Astrophysical Journal . 721 (2): L129–L133.
arXiv :
1009.1824 .
Bibcode :
2010ApJ...721L.129H .
doi :
10.1088/2041-8205/721/2/L129 .
S2CID
37619282 .
^
"Impact mark on Jupiter, 19th July 2009" . jupiter.samba.org . Retrieved 10 January 2022 .
^
"Comet Crash Impact Times Request" . www2.jpl.nasa.gov . NASA JPL. Retrieved 5 January 2022 .
^ Cook, A.F.; Duxbury, T.C. (1981).
"A Fireball in Jupiter's Atmosphere" . J. Geophys. Res . 86 (A10): 8815–8817.
Bibcode :
1981JGR....86.8815C .
doi :
10.1029/JA086iA10p08815 .
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