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Jupiter hit again.

rjh01 said:
I expect Jupiter to be hit a lot more than Earth is. Jupiter is a much bigger target and it is nearer the asteroid belt.
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That is actually the scientific view.

Some have speculated that Jupiter is the reason we humans are even here at all. Due to it's size and position, Jupiter gobbles up a lot of the junk inbound from the Oort Cloud to the inner solar system. It probably shielded the Earth from a great many large scale disasters over the last 3+ billion years.
 
That news story was from over two years ago.

It was still news to me, so thanks for posting. I'm just surprised that I didn't hear it before.
 
steve s said:
It appears that Jupiter has been hit by another asteroid.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/03/4459598-something-hit-jupiter-again?lite

Video here...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568

Steve S
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Yeah, that is really really cool.... I just watched the video, didn't read anything about it yet, but I have to wonder if these types of impacts change our understanding of how often these events happen.

Before Shoemaker–Levy it was assumed that impact events were extremely rare. I believe there was another impact after Shoemaker–Levy as well as this new one. It looks like impact events are perhaps sort of common place in the grand scheme of things.

And I wonder what it has to say about a major impact event here on Earth. I would think it takes the odds up a little higher than previously thought.

Either way, this is really cool. Thanks for posting.
 
CurtC said:
That news story was from over two years ago.

It was still news to me, so thanks for posting. I'm just surprised that I didn't hear it before.
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Oh, this is the other event I posted about above.

That sucks, I was hoping this was something new. Still really cool to see the images.
 
not_so_new said:
That is actually the scientific view.

Some have speculated that Jupiter is the reason we humans are even here at all. Due to it's size and position, Jupiter gobbles up a lot of the junk inbound from the Oort Cloud to the inner solar system. It probably shielded the Earth from a great many large scale disasters over the last 3+ billion years.
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Hail Jupiter!
 
CurtC said:
That news story was from over two years ago.

It was still news to me, so thanks for posting. I'm just surprised that I didn't hear it before.
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Jupiter is pretty far away. It takes a long time for news to reach us.
 
not_so_new said:
Some have speculated that Jupiter is the reason we humans are even here at all. Due to it's size and position, Jupiter gobbles up a lot of the junk inbound from the Oort Cloud to the inner solar system. It probably shielded the Earth from a great many large scale disasters over the last 3+ billion years.
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And you atheists think that's just a coincidence. Jupiter's size and position is just proof that God loves you.
 
Sexy Jupiter is moving all the time, Sam, but Jupiter an assteroid magnet so they just go chasing after it.
 
Monketey Ghost said:
Sexy Jupiter is moving all the time, Sam, but Jupiter an assteroid magnet so they just go chasing after it.
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Even the earth has an asteroid chasing it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110406132024.htm
ScienceDaily (May 9, 2011) — Astronomers from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland have found that a recently discovered asteroid has been following Earth in its motion around the Sun for at least the past 250,000 years, and may be intimately related to the origin of our planet.
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Steve S
 
This is just Jupiter doing it's job. It takes most of the hits so we don't have to.
 
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