A new asteroid impact has been spotted on Jupiter by Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley.

Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark "scar" had suddenly appeared on Jupiter, this morning between 3 and 9 a.m. PDT (6 a.m. and noon EDT) scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, gathered evidence indicating an impact.

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good o'l jupiter... taking the hits so we don't have to ;D

its news because its an Australian

last edited by greazy at 12:05:13 22/Jul/09

Paging Faceman teh aliens are swarming

it was also news 15years ago when shoemaker-levy9 hit jupiter & it wasn't an australian who discovered it, so your sandy vagina'd point is irrelevant. :D

This is pretty sweet. I'd like to know the estimated size of the object, and then what the impact equates to in terms of hydrogen bombs.

i doubt 15 years ago you would have went online and created a thread about shoemaker-levy9 commet. so my sandy vaginaed point is still valid.

Yeah that guy posts regularly on iceinspace. Here's the original thread of the discovery:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=47481

His gear: http://jupiter.samba.org/AnthonyWesley.jpg
More info: http://jupiter.samba.org/

he looks like an interesting chap

Nevermind.

last edited by Python at 12:19:36 22/Jul/09

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One day, very soon, that 'Anomaly' might be an Alien Ship exploring Planets.
I wonder if theres an Alien Race out there that knows our Earth could/most likely have Life but we are just too far away for them to contact us.

which 'Anomaly' ?

good o'l jupiter... taking the hits so we don't have to ;D

This! Apparently for complex life to evolve you need a few big arse planets out in the middle to attract the nasties.

Otherwise every millenia or so the planet gets smacked with a sterlising rock and it all has to start again. Go Jupiter! Honorable mention to Saturn also.

Yeah but if your WonderPlanet gets no Asteroid Sperm how will it evolve life ?

while there is a chance that organisms arrived on earth via a comet, it would have been from the earth passing through the trail... not the comet impacting on the surface. just coz ya saw it on futurama duzzn't make it true.

If an Alien Race could see us, why wouldn't they be able to contact us?

Becasue by the time it takes for their attempt to contact us it will be 1,000,000 years later, if they are that many light years away.

last edited by r_mazing at 14:43:57 22/Jul/09

If an Alien Race could see us, why wouldn't they be able to contact us?

Why would they want to? We don't really have anything to offer, and in general we're a pack of arseholes.

this is such a cool story

congrats to tony

If an Alien Race could see us, why wouldn't they be able to contact us?

they could be calling now and we're just not hearing the phone ringing

Becasue by the time it takes for their attempt to contact us it will be 1,000,000 years later, if they are that many light years away.

Faceman's comment was phrased as if it was the distance alone that made it difficult for them to contact us - like they can't shout loud enough.

Just out of coolness, everyone should go to Mt Cootha planetarium. They do this really cool animation where they show a universe view of how far our radiowaves have travelled into space (100 lightyears), and the number of planets the radiowaves would have reached in the last 100 years. It's pretty exciting to think that someone out there has already heard us, but as r_mazing pointed out, unless the message is already on the way back, we'll all be dead before we find out!

"We ought to do it because it's the law"

What?

By the way Faceman, unidentified Flying Objects exist, UFOs don't.

BUt didnt baby jesus sperm all of us into existence? If I remember the bible right.

I heard Uranus likes to get hit every now and then

jesus christ thats a f***ing huge telescope to just have sitting around in your back yard