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An unidentified object collided with Jupiter

An unidentified object collided with Jupiter

An unidentified object struck the planet Thursday This Tuesday morning at 12.39, Paris time. This encounter was discovered by Jose Luis Pereira, a
Astronomer Brazilian amateur in the state of So Paulo. The cosmic collision was later confirmed by two other observers: Harold Paleske in Germany and Jean-Paul Arnold from the Lorraine Astronomical Society (SLA) in France. The ALS team was able to record the impact, reports Future-Science.

It is a bright flash on the surface Planet The giant that allowed the audience to detect the conflict.
In pictures posted on YouTube, We see very clearly a bright flash that lasts for two seconds. However, it is difficult to know what kind of object Jupiter may have encountered: is it a comet, an asteroid or something else? “A hundred meters long asteroid will do the trick”
spaceweather.com website.

The last two decades have seen at least eight impacts

To learn more about this cosmic collision, people who were photographed on Thursday during the impact are invited to examine their data. Viewers are expected to continue filming the affected area in the coming days. The goal is to determine if a dark spot is found.

In fact, in July 1994 such points were identified. They were created by fragments of the comet Schumacher-Leave, which met Jupiter that year. At least eight impacts have been observed on the giant planet over the past two decades.

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