Jupiter impact confirmed by JPL

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by bird

More images can be seen here:
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/Obs...er-impact.html
Already a higher res version there shows multiple impact marks.
cheers, Bird

Excellent hi-res images Anthony, the tones and transitions are very smooth indeed. I’m so very pleased that you were our “man on the ground” for this discovery – it is so richly deserved!

Cheers

Dennis

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Now the race is on to find the fireball... there's a slim chance that it's in some earlier data from that night.

Sigh, it's SL9 all over again, when the impact was around the limb and not visible.

I've been reminded that it's 15 years to the day since one of the SL9 impacts. How weird.

More images coming soon.

cheers, Bird

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

You must be feeling very surreal at the moment Anthony.
Waiting for it all to unfold.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

It's truly strange. Add to that coming back inside at 3am to see the end of the golf as well... that was also a surreal finish.

[cosmologia (Sergio)]

Hi,
I confirm the black spot observed by Anthony.

Here in Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy (Livorno, Toscana).

ciao
Sergio

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks Sergio, were you able to image it?

[snowyskiesau]

Just heard about this over at slashdot.org.
This would explain why your website is inaccessible.

[matt]

This is quite interesting stuff.

I reckon it'd be great if as many of us as possible at IIS set up tonight and attempted to capture/confirm these markings.

Perhaps Mike/Anthony could provide links to where where we can send our data for comparison/analysis?

This is exciting.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Yes, I figured that was the cause :-)

I'll keep posting the images here as well, (sorry Mike) ...

Some more images:

[sheeny (Al)]

Onya Bird!

You deserve it.

Al.

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by bird

Yes, I figured that was the cause :-)

I'll keep posting the images here as well, (sorry Mike) ...

Some more images:

Don't apologise!

That last image is a cracker!

[cfranks (Charles)]

Originally Posted by bird

Now the race is on to find the fireball... there's a slim chance that it's in some earlier data from that night.

Sigh, it's SL9 all over again, when the impact was around the limb and not visible.

I've been reminded that it's 15 years to the day since one of the SL9 impacts. How weird.

More images coming soon.

cheers, Bird

I actually saw the SL9 big one hit. The fireball was immense and the scar left was not much larger (I think) than the one you found. Great find.

Charles

[meliux (Dan)]

yay for the site getting slashdotted

[erick (Eric)]

Great work, Anthony.

So what have we got:-

40th anniversary of first Moon landing
First images of LEM remnants on the Moon
Shuttle launch
Largest number of space travellers to date in earth orbit
Longest total solar eclipse of the century
Impact on Jupiter captured

Now we just need Eta Carina to go Ka-boom to complete the fun!

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

I've moved my site to a new location (thanks the gods for Tridge)

http://jupiter.samba.org

More images coming

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

new image

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by bird

I've moved my site to a new location (thanks the gods for Tridge)

http://jupiter.samba.org

More images coming

I've informed everyone at the Centre for Astronomy at JCU, staff and students, about your discovery, Anthony. You've generated some interest there

[Mikezoom]

Are you sure it's not a mass of black monoliths?

Mike.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

another one...

[DavidU (Dave)]

This is truely awsome !