No more End Of The Earth: 2012! We're lucky!
An amateur Australian astronomer has set the space-watching world on fire after discovering that a rare comet or asteroid had crashed into Jupiter, leaving an impact the size of Earth.
Dark impact mark first noted at approximately 1330UTC on 19th July 2009
An image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 shows the sharpest visible-light picture taken of the impact feature (dark spot) and "backsplash" of material from an object that plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere.
The only other time astronomers have discovered evidence of a space object having hit Jupiter was when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet collided with the giant planet in July, 1994.
Glenn Orton, the NASA scientist who confirmed Wesley's discovery, said: "We are extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better."
Orton said he was not yet sure whether the object that hit Jupiter was a comet, asteroid or some other piece of space junk. But the impact mark is about the size of the Earth.
"It's been a whirlwind of a day and this, on the anniversary of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Apollo anniversaries, is amazing," he said.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/sci-tech/backyard-astronomer-...
How do we know its the same comet that's supposed to hit Earth ? They all look the same, just like those damn ladies at the Ramada.
What is Jupiter does not have the grvitationa pull to divert the comet that's hurtling towards us ?
Sorry.. I will continue planning for the end in 2012..
http://thepoleshift.com/
This is Allah showing you not to try and predict the hour as you can not. Also there is no comet involved in Judgement day.
bloody aussies.
Thank f%*k for that...... I don't have to blow all my money on sex, drugs and sausage rolls now....
Alien invasion?
Are you from Mars?
THEY ARE ALREADY HERE! :p
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...so by the time the asteroid (or say the former Shoemaker-Levy 9) hits the planet, it gets disintigrated first in Jupiter's thick atmosphere and possibly little to no fragments of the asteroid got into the planet's real solid crust.
Now in Earth's case...I thought 2012 was an alien invasion. LOL
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach