VIDEO: Huge Fireball Crashes Into Jupiter, Impact Caught By Amateur Astronomer…

Huge fireball slams into Jupiter, impact caught on Video

This image provided by Anthony Wesley shows an amateur astronomer's view of Jupiter Thursday June 3, 2010, who said he witnessed a bright flash, upper left, from an object hitting the Jovian surface. The discovery was confirmed by another amateur skygazer in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Anthony Wesley)

Christian Science Monitor
Space.com staff
June 5, 2010

A huge fireball has been spotted on Jupiter in yet another collision from space caught on camera and video by amateur astronomers.

The new Jupiter crash occurred on June 3 at 20:31 UT (4:31 p.m. Eastern Time) and was spotted by skywatcher Anthony Wesley in Australia and fellow amateur astronomer Christopher Go in the Philippines.

Wesley’s photos show the Jupiter fireball blazing in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet. So far, no visible scar in the clouds has been reported from the event.

Wesley described the event as a “large fireball” on his website, where he posted the photos taken from Broken Hill, Australia.

This new impact on Jupiter comes less than a year after a spectacular crash on July 19, 2009, when what scientist now think was an asteroid about 1,600 feet (500 meters) wide slammed into the planet. That collision created a massive bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean.

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