On August 20, amateur astronaut Masayuki Tachikawa, from the city of Kamamoto, Japan, photographed a flash and a fireball colliding with Jupiter. Astronomers are monitoring the location of the impact and its consequences
She wrote Kashetot (she writes in Rotter)
On August 20, amateur astronaut Masayuki Tachikawa, from the city of Kamamoto, Japan, photographed a flash and a fireball colliding with Jupiter. Astronomers are monitoring the location of the impact and its consequences.
This is the third time since July 2009 that a collision with Jupiter has been observed, the previous two times were on July 19, 2009, and on June 3, 2010.
Aoki Kazuo, another astronomer from Tokyo managed to take a photo that day confirming the event, from a distance of 800 km from the previous one. In the photo, the object is seen approaching Jupiter.
These days, Jupiter is used as an object of observation by astronomy enthusiasts due to its relative proximity to the Earth, and since the two planets are on the same side of the Sun, we also see almost fully the bright side of Jupiter. As a result, it is also one of the brightest objects in the night sky - its brightness reaches minus 2.
As I recall, one of the well-publicized vulnerabilities was that of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994, then the comet broke up into many pieces, including 21 very large pieces that were visible from Earth and hit the same latitude in Jupiter one after the other.
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For the writer above, "Itzik", a crater cannot form on Tzedek, it is made of gas! [Gas giant!!]
What fun it is to be an amateur astronaut. Improvise for you like this some spaceship with which you can take a spin in space every now and then...
These are the consequences that can already have for the same impact of the same celestial element... some kind of crater and nothing more...
But how does it affect us?