While we're on an astronomical theme (mentioned the solar eclipse visible in Asia yesterday), here's another interesting development...something hit Jupiter...something BIG hit Jupiter, and we missed it.
A few days ago, an amateur astronomer/stargazer in Australia noticed an earth-sized hole in Jupiter's atmosphere near the south pole, then it was confirmed by NASA's infrared telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
There are several interesting things about this discovery...
1) We didn't see an object large enough to make an earth-sized hole?
2) We don't know what the object was
3) This even occurred almost 15 years to the day after pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit the king of the planets in 1994.
Scientists think the impacting object was either a comet, piece of a comet or an icy asteroid.
They'll continue their studies, and I'll let you know what they discover as the story develops.
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