Jupiter impact confirmed by JPL

[Spanrz (Brett)]

I know this might be a bit weird and funny, but CH7 (Melb) have a movie on tonight called of all things "Meteor".......
And it's headlined with "After an Astronomer discovers a large meteor"

Did CH7 just give you recognition Anthony?
I know they didn't have a meteor hitting jupiter movie, but I suppose this one cuts to a close 2nd.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Spanrz

I know this might be a bit weird and funny, but CH7 (Melb) have a movie on tonight called of all things "Meteor".......
And it's headlined with "After an Astronomer discovers a large meteor".

7 Sydney too and probably the rest of the 7 & associates networks.

3.5hours. 90mins of movie + 120mins of adverts?

It clashes with Swans vs. Saints.

Going to Sydney Theatre Company wins.

[Kal (Andrew)]

It starts at 8:30pm and finishes at 12:15am - that's 3hr45m, or 225 minutes

Doing some research the runtime is 240 minutes, so they must be using an edited shortened version for tonights showing?

[Blaznee (Gary)]

Absolutely brilliant Bird....
What was the image of the week should be the image of the Decade (or maybe several decades)

[cosmologia (Sergio)]

Hi,
take a look here, it is my website
http://www.webalice.it/sergiosaltamonti/
You can find my Jup images was recording impact zone.
Remember, from my observation place, Jupiter is 32° up high.

Ciao

Sergio

[Jen]

Originally Posted by cosmologia

Hi,
take a look here, it is my website
http://www.webalice.it/sergiosaltamonti/
You can find my Jup images was recording impact zone.
Remember, from my observation place, Jupiter is 32° up high.

Ciao

Sergio

some nice pics you got there Sergio

[erick (Eric)]

They are still talking about it!

See second page of Editorial in Astronomy Technology Today (Sep-Oct 2009)

https://www.astronomytechnologytoday.com/

[erick (Eric)]

Nice compilation:-

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090908.html

Interesting to see the relative movement of the white spots as well as the impact dissipation.

[iceman (Mike)]

Theo has also put together this youtube movie showing the history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpGnO...eature=channel

[Quark (Trevor)]

Theo sure did a great job putting this presentation together, what an excellent record of such a rare event for Anthony in particular, for those that contributed high res follow up images and for the general amateur community around the world.

Very well done, again Anthony, on your discovery and the contribution it has made to astronomy. I am sure every Australian amateur is very proud of you.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

And (I think) there's some more hst images to be released sometime soon...

Bird

[square_peg114GT]

Anthony, congrats and the nice write up in this month's (Nov. 2009) issue of Sky & Telescope.

[alphajuno (Dave)]

In the November Sky and Telescope there is a nice article entitled "Jupiter Takes a Hit" (p. 34). It characterizes Anthony as the "hero" who made the discovery and includes several of his nice pictures of the WIS and a picture of Anthony and his rig! Nice!

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Sky & Telescope online has an update on further analysis.

[venus (Lydia)]

Congratulations Anthony on your "Shoemaker NEO award"