Jupiter's New Spot
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2010
- / sciencereason ... Jupiter's New Spot - an amateur astronomer discovers a new, mysterious spot on Jupiter.
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New black spot - Possible New Impact on Jupiter
Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley from Canberra, Australia captured an image of Jupiter on July 19 showing a possible new impact site. Anthony's image shows a new dark spot in the South Polar Region of Jupiter, at approximately 216° longitude in System 2. It looks very similar to the impact marks made on Jupiter when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the gas giant in 1994.
It has been confirmed this is an impact on Jupiter. Mike Salway shared the news Glenn Orton from JPL has imaged the Jupiter black spot with the NASA Infrared Telescope and he has confirmed it's an impact.
On his observing blog, Anthony Wesley said he began observing Jupiter at approximately 11pm local time (1300UTC), using a 14.5" Newtonian telescope. "I'd noticed a dark spot rotating into view in Jupiter's south polar region and was starting to get curious," he wrote. "When first seen close to the limb (and in poor conditions) it was only a vaguely dark spot, I thought likely to be just a normal dark polar storm. However as it rotated further into view, and the conditions also improved, I suddenly realized that it wasn't just dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot."
First he thought it might be a dark moon (like Callisto) or a moon shadow, but it was in the wrong place and the wrong size. "Also I'd noticed it was moving too slow to be a moon or shadow. As far as I could see it was rotating in sync with a nearby white oval storm that I was very familiar with -- this could only mean that the back feature was at the cloud level and not a projected shadow from a moon. I started to get excited."
• www.universetoday.com/2009/07/...
• jupiter.samba.org/
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Congratulations Anthony, great work!
what i would like to know is how big that spot is compared to the earth.
So cool!
Thanks to Anthony.
@tman301j lol. damn.
@yascumbag there are some alternatives besides nuking a comet.
You can use a big lense to burn a whole in the comet, and the heat generates trhust and chance the orbit of the comet. Another method is to fly a heavy spacecraft next to it. The comet will react due the gravity of the spacecraft and change its orbit also, but you have to fly months/years next to it. Another method is to grab it with a machine. You can look this up! very interesting.
@tman301j
The great red spot is about 3 earth diameters across at its longest, so that spot looks to me to be somewhere between the size of earth and mars
@EmperorofCartoons
"Space is unspeakably huge, and things can come at us from any direction, at any time, at extreme speeds."
That's why I sleep under an extra thick comforter...
cool!
it's things like this that make me want to minor in astronomy. i just can't seem to fit in the extra classes...
Damn did you see the size of tha telescope, not bad for an amateur astronomer.
Wow!!! *****
That was a good find!. Too bad that in the middle of London you see pretty much nothing ;-( So even with his telescope I would have missed it.
Neat.
Did we see that comet that hit Jupiter? Im afraid one day a large comet whipes out a city on Earth. People always think it wont happen to us, but we see it everytime in our own solar system.
@canuzzi Where I think money is wasted is that a simple differential imaging program and pattern analysis could detect automatically those spots, this one appearing as a zit on someone's face (can't miss it). But yes, I am sure space is big ... and at the end, amateur astronomer have fun.
@volound The headline at 0:07 says it's the size of Earth.
It would be so cool if they named the 'spot' after him, he deserves it
@chestbuster1987 Yeah talk about telesoope envy lol.
This is cool. What we see in this ancient universe these days is changing human consciousness; the more we are aware of what is going on the more we are freaked out, but change with the info.. history is full of such crazy leaps in the imagination, like the world is not round,... etc.. how close is the next comet going to pass by Earth, shake us up and wake us up, time to work together guys and gals, defend planet earth and humanity.
You'd think Nasa would be watching all the planets, and pluto, all the time.
@aNdYmAtTeR By NASA spectroscopic images of the impact, they can tell what was in the blast as I dnt remember exactly.......stay tuned...
I wish my wimpy telescope could see Jupiter so clearly. Jealous.
@BlackRaptor31 Many things being observed at all times. Most things not under continuous scrutiny. Many interesting things watched infrequently. Most interesting things not being observed at all. Its all about resources.
@XlinkK280
*ok a laser! the powerfullest laser todate, is still in an experimental stage. i doubt it could burn through miles of rock. it would just burn a really red hot scorch mark on the spot...
*how to power it?
*heat does not generate thrust!
*to build a heavy spacecraft it would have to be tremendous. at least 1/3 of the size of the large astroid... that just isn't viable there would be no way nasa would send that much stuff into space just to construct a slow moving astroid attractor.
proud to be Aussie,
@wonderbung Pfft! I wish I could get clear skies for a change so I could use a telescope to begin with.
@yascumbag Nuking a comet/meteorite is a bad idea. If it fails you get a radio active meteorite.
All that money to Astrophysicists for an amateur to be the first to warn them? What were they doing? Eating donuts or pizza?
I hope NASA lets him name the spot.
Wait. Weren't we supposed to find the monolith on the moon first?
I didnt realize the impact of my fart....
Give that man a job.
@Craydon Yeah and the fact that they missed what caused it now is a f-ing mystery. Some random bloke 1 NASA 0
it just a spot like we get in our face.
@yascumbag the just look this up, my english is not that great so you be not understanding everything fully.
@XlinkK280 grab an astroid? its one thing to catch up with an astroid its a whole other thing to try to counteract its inertia none of those ideas are viable... there is no alternative... ballistic nukes we do have, have ready at a moments notice, have the closest thing with the power/speed and destructive force to have any effect on an astroid
remember we are talkin about big meteorites that are several miles long
not little ones that would burn up in the athmosphere
can i view your sources?
@4N0NYM0U557 you were never safe. but worrying about it aint going to make you any safer
@skinnym974 There are NUMEROUS regular people like you and me who simply buy a telescope and observe the objects in the solar system. Let them do that. NASA doesn't need to waste "all that money" you mentioned to merely watch our cosmic backyard. There are far more amazing things to see far out in the universe with their powerful telescopes.
@EmperorofCartoons Watching the planets should be a big part of being the US space agency. Need to pay for it doesn't really factor in as far as I'm concerned. Taxes going towards space exploration are an honor to me. And if they need money get to mining asteroids or something. I mean how much gold is out there?
Chopsticks make great eye gougers.
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@wmpr88 Seriously, or at least buy him an even bigger telescope. Sounds like a good investment to me.
I would be doing stuff like this, but I'm usually too busy getting laid. :-)
Just kidding. This is cool. Congratulations, Anthony!
Jupiter wa all like.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMmmmmmm......!
I live there! I KNO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i see green people!!
Eh.....who watching in 2020?
OH MY GOD IT WAS AN ALIEN SHIP, PROOF OF ALIEN LIFE!!!
@jorgecalivalle That missconception only exists among religious nutcases witch is a 3 times bigger group over there compared to here ;)