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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9 An entire fragmented comet impacted Jupiter in 1994
by matkoniecz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9
An entire fragmented comet impacted Jupiter in 1994
> Over the next six days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07:33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter. This impact created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km (7,500 mi) across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600 times the world's nuclear arsenal).[24] Two impacts 12 hours apart on July 19 created impact marks of similar size to that caused by fragment G, and impacts continued until July 22, when fragment W struck the planet.[25]
- tmp538394722 5y agoThis is awesome. Thanks for sharing. > Although the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1.6 AU (240 million km; 150 million mi) from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred. We’re getting better at this stuff!