Another Impact Event on Jupiter
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:28
in Astronomy & Space
Jupiter has been hit again and has the scar to prove it. Though occurring on the anniversary of the 1994 impact of first fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, this new impact event is apparently not of the same scale of the multi-day event known as the "Great Comet Crash." Still, it raises some interesting questions about what we should expect in the future.