New Impact on Jupiter

By Nancy Atkinson - June 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

[/caption] In an incredible coincidence where a

paper was released today

about the 2009 impact event on Jupiter, the same amateur astronomer who captured that event also captured a new impact Jupiter that occurred at about 20:30 UT today (June 3, 2010). Anthony Wesley from Australia captured the flash of an impact, which was also captured and confirmed by Christopher Go of the Philippines. Watch Go's video here. Go said he shot it with a blue filter. Word is that Anthony is processing his video, and we'll post it when available.

Update:

We've added Anthony Wesley's color image of the impact, above (you can see the original image below) and also added Anthony's video of the event, below.

And here's a direct link to Anthony Wesley's video (mwv) of the impact.

Here's Anthony's original greyscale image:

[caption id="attachment_65759" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="New Jupiter Impact on June 3, 2010. Credit: by Anthony Wesley"]

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Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com