The Dean Posted July 20, 2009 Posted July 20, 2009 Better not land on Europa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJX3uTA-X2A
/dev/null Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Better not land on Europa. They've already drilled a hole thru Uranus
Assquatch Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 http://jupiter.samba.org/jupiter-impact.html Fake. The caption says it was taken from Australia but Jupiter is not upside-down in the picture.
The Dean Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Fake. The caption says it was taken from Australia but Jupiter is not upside-down in the picture.
Beerball Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Yet another example of shameless CNN cross promotion.
/dev/null Posted July 25, 2009 Author Posted July 25, 2009 Hubble takes a look see Good find Without Jupiter's gravitational field stuff like that might hit earth and then things might end up like the craptacular Meteor miniseries on NBC
HopsGuy Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 Hmmm... Shoemaker-Levy hit in the "Southern Hemisphere" of Jupiter and now this. Some folks call it the "Bottom" of the big planet. Yeah... that's right... Jupiter is a "Bottom". The largest planet in our solar system plays for the other team!* "Fabulous!" *Apologies to anyone that plays for the other team. It was an easy joke, so I took it.
The Dean Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 Hmmm... Shoemaker-Levy hit in the "Southern Hemisphere" of Jupiter and now this. Some folks call it the "Bottom" of the big planet. Yeah... that's right... Jupiter is a "Bottom". The largest planet in our solar system plays for the other team!* "Fabulous!" *Apologies to anyone that plays for the other team. It was an easy joke, so I took it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
/dev/null Posted July 25, 2009 Author Posted July 25, 2009 *Apologies to anyone that plays for the other team. It was an easy joke, so I took it. There are some Patriots* fans that post here, but what's that got to do with them?
Rubes Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 So for a non-astronomer, how does a comet "impact" a gas planet? Wouldn't it just pass through it?
DC Tom Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 So for a non-astronomer, how does a comet "impact" a gas planet? Wouldn't it just pass through it? 1) "Gas planets" probably aren't gas all the way through, although it really depends on your definition of "gas". 3) The friction of impact would either burn the object up, or slow it down so it wouldn't pass all the way through anyway.
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