All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact

MTK · 07-22-2009, 10:01 AM

Astronomers were scrambling to get big telescopes turned to Jupiter on Tuesday to observe the remains of what looks like the biggest smashup in the solar system since fragments of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the planet in July 1994.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/sc...22jupiter.html

saden1 · 07-22-2009, 01:21 PM

OMG, they're just discovering this impact? We're doomed!

Trample the Elderly · 07-22-2009, 01:44 PM

I wouldn't worry about it. Jupiter has the gravity to pull in all kinds of junk that passes through our solar system. I'll go out on a limb and say that is why it has so many quasi-moons. They need to worry less about Jupiter and more about the toilet on the International Space Station.

What's the deal with Helium 3? A lot of people have been talking about it being the new plutonium? I hear the ChiComs and Russians want to mine the moon for it?

07-22-2009, 10:01 AM	#1
MTK \m/ Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NY Age: 52 Posts: 99,472	All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact Astronomers were scrambling to get big telescopes turned to Jupiter on Tuesday to observe the remains of what looks like the biggest smashup in the solar system since fragments of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the planet in July 1994. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/sc...22jupiter.html __________________ Support The Warpath! \| Warpath Shop

07-22-2009, 01:21 PM	#2
saden1 MVP Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Age: 45 Posts: 10,069	Re: All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact OMG, they're just discovering this impact? We're doomed! __________________ "The Redskins have always suffered from chronic organizational deformities under Snyder." -Jenkins

07-22-2009, 01:44 PM	#3
Trample the Elderly Playmaker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Three Chopt Virginia Age: 47 Posts: 2,906	Re: All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact I wouldn't worry about it. Jupiter has the gravity to pull in all kinds of junk that passes through our solar system. I'll go out on a limb and say that is why it has so many quasi-moons. They need to worry less about Jupiter and more about the toilet on the International Space Station. What's the deal with Helium 3? A lot of people have been talking about it being the new plutonium? I hear the ChiComs and Russians want to mine the moon for it?

All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact

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