[meteorite-list] Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud

[Chris Peterson]

I find it odd that anybody thinks it strange this event didn't produce a 
visible mark. We have two cases of blotches on Jupiter- one from SL9, known 
to be huge, and the other from something nobody ever saw. There must be 
meteors all the time on Jupiter, and most, like on Earth, should simply burn 
up before the atmosphere gets dense and leave no trace. This latest event 
happened to be big enough to get seen as a tiny flash on a lucky image, but 
it's pretty clearly in a very different class than the last two known 
impacts. If we always had cameras on Jupiter, we'd probably find that events 
like this are fairly common. It's the one big enough to effect the denser, 
lower clouds that are rare.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:07 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud


> Hmmm?!? So, what pelted Jupiter's atmosphere without leaving a cloud of 
> debris?
> Something "rock solid" ... so solid (a high-nickel ataxite?) that it did 
> not dis-
> integrate like IIAB Sikhote-Alin did (thinking of Medvedev's famous 
> painting!)?
> Did it plunge through Jupiter's very dense (!) atmosphere (almost) 
> vertically
> without disintegrating?
>
> Mulling here in Germany,
>
> Bernd