/dev/null Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 http://jupiter.samba.org/jupiter-impact.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Better not land on Europa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Better not land on Europa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJX3uTA-X2A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted July 21, 2009 Author Share Posted July 21, 2009 Better not land on Europa. They've already drilled a hole thru Uranus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assquatch Posted July 21, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Fake. The caption says it was taken from Australia but Jupiter is not upside-down in the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Yet another example of shameless CNN cross promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Hubble takes a look see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopsGuy Posted July 25, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 25, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 So for a non-astronomer, how does a comet "impact" a gas planet? Wouldn't it just pass through it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 25, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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