2010 Jupiter impact event

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2010 Jupiter impact event
Observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
Date3 June 2010 (2010-06-03)
LocationJupiter

The 2010 Jupiter impact event was a

centaur, extinct comet
, or temporary satellite capture.

Observation

2010 Jupiter impact event

The impact happened 3 June 2010, and was recorded and first reported by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley from Australia. The event was confirmed by Christopher Go at the Philippines, who recorded the event and released a video.[2][3][4] Wesley is the same person who had been first to report the 2009 Jupiter impact event.

The observed flash lasted about two seconds.

superbolide impactor probably measured between 8 and 13 metres (26 and 43 ft) across, with a mass between 500 and 2,000 tonnes (490 and 1,970 long tons; 550 and 2,200 short tons).[7] Jupiter probably gets hit by several objects of this size each year.[7]

On 20 August 2010 UT, yet another flash event was detected on Jupiter.[8] As of 23 August two other observers had recorded the same event.[9]

See also

References

  1. S2CID 37619282
    .
  2. ^ a b Sayanagi, Kunio M. (3 June 2010). "Jupiter hit by another impactor Thursday". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
  3. Astronomy Magazine
    online. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Jupiter 2020 by Chris Go". www.christone.net.
  5. ^ "Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley films Jupiter impact". The Daily Telegraph. 5 June 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
  6. ^ Rogers, John H. "New impact on Jupiter before & after". British Astronomical Association. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
  7. ^ a b "WITHOUT A TRACE – A FLASH IN JUPITER'S SKY". Gemini Observatory. 9 September 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  8. ^ "Optical flash on Jupiter". Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  9. ^ Beatty, Kelly (22 August 2010). "Another Flash on Jupiter!". Sky & Telescope. Sky Publishing. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010. Masayuki Tachikawa was observing ... 18:22 Universal Time on the 20th ... Kazuo Aoki posted an image ... Ishimaru of Toyama prefecture observed the event

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