Jupiter Impact

Jupiter has had an additional impact as you are able to see in the video, this one on August 20th.  Challenging to say what the impacting body was.  There weren’t any black plumes so it could be the density/mass wasn’t like the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet (D/1993 F2) of 1994. Then once more trajectory and velocity wants to be figured in, still it’s likely smaller.  Probably an object captured by Jupiter’s gravity, a moon of sorts, falling into the planet.  Not at all far fetched; an object ventures as well close towards the massive planet, gets captured into an orbit but doesn’t have sufficient velocity to keep it from spiraling to its demise.  From our perspective the object would lack the punch to accomplish very much a lot more than end its life in a flash.

It’s probably we will see far more impacts like these thanks to dedicated observers like amateur astronomer Mr. Masayuki Tachikawa the gentleman who captured the video.

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