A fireball in the atmosphere of Jupiter
This image of a fireball, created by the collision of an unknown object with the atmosphere of Jupiter, was obtained by Anthony Wesley on 3 June 2010 at 20:31 from Broken Hill (Australia) using a webcam on his 37 cm aperture home-made telescope. The impact created a short-lived white spot towards the right-hand edge of the disc of the planet. Using these observations, as well as data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and several other ground-based telescopes, scientists have found that the impacting object seen entering the atmosphere of Jupiter was a meteoroid roughly 8–13 m in diameter.
Herkunftsnachweis:Anthony Wesley
Über das Bild
ID: | ann1059a |
Typ: | Beobachtung |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 9. September 2010 21:00 |
Dazugehörige Mitteilungen: | ann1059 |
Größe: | 816 x 853 px |
Über das Objekt
Name: | Jupiter |
Typ: | Solar System : Planet : Type : Gas Giant Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface : Impact |
Kategorie: | Solar System |
Bildschirm-Hintergrundbilder
Farben & Filter
Spektralbereich | Wellenlänge | Teleskop |
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Optisch R | 650 nm | Other |