In recorded history, the planet Jupiter has experienced impact events and has been probed and photographed by several spacecraft.
Impact
Main article: Impact events on Jupiter| Event | Date (UTC) | Rough original size (meters) |
Latitude (°) | Longitude (°) | Discoverer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2023 event | 2023/08/28 16:45 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Oct 2021 event | 2021/10/15 13:24 | ? | +20 | 201 | Ko Arimatsu |
| Sep 2021 event | 2021/09/13 22:39:30 | ? | −5.5 | 105.7 | José Luis Pereira |
| Apr 2020 event | 2020/04/10 | 1-4 | ? | ? | Juno team |
| Aug 2019 event | 2019/08/07 04:07 | ? | ? | ? | Ethan Chappel |
| May 2017 event | 2017/05/26 19:25 | 12 | +51 | ? | Sauveur Pedranghelu |
| Mar 2016 event | 2016/03/17 00:18:33 | 15 | ? | ? | John McKeon |
| Sep 2012 event | 2012/09/10 11:35:00 | 30 | +2 | 345 | Dan Peterson |
| Aug 2010 event | 2010/08/20 18:22:12 | 10 | +11 | ? | Masayuki Tachikawa Aoki Kazuo |
| Jun 2010 Jupiter impact event | 2010/06/03 20:31:20 | 13 | ? | ? | Anthony Wesley |
| Jul 2009 Jupiter impact event | 2009/07/19 13:30 | 200–500 | −57 | 55 | Anthony Wesley |
| Jul 1994 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 | 1994/07/16 20:13:16 – 1994/07/22 08:06:16 |
1800 | varies for each fragment | varies for each fragment | Carolyn Shoemaker Eugene Shoemaker David Levy |
| Mar 1979 event | 1979/03/05 17:45:24 | ? | ? | ? | Voyager team |
Spacecraft entry
- Galileo spacecraft entry – September 21, 2003
- Galileo probe entry – December 7, 1995
Spacecraft orbit
Spacecraft flybys
References
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- Bartels, Meghan (21 October 2021). "Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers". Space.com. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- King, Bob (18 October 2021). "Jupiter Whacked Again? Japanese Astronomers Record Possible Impact". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- King, Bob (14 September 2021). "Amateur Spots Possible New Impact Flash at Jupiter". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
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- Mack, Eric. "Jupiter just got slammed by something so big we saw it from Earth". CNET. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ R. Hueso; M. Delcroix; A. Sánchez-Lavega; S. Pedranghelu; G. Kernbauer; J. McKeon; A. Fleckstein; A. Wesley; J.M. Gómez-Forrellad; J.F. Rojas; J. Juaristi (2018). "Small impacts on the giant planet Jupiter". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 309: 277–296. arXiv:1804.03006. Bibcode:2018Icar..309..277B. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2018.03.012. S2CID 119397579.
- King, Bob (28 May 2017). "New Impact Flash Seen on Jupiter". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
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- Shiga, David. "Jupiter attacked for third time in 13 months". New Scientist. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- Hueso, R.; Wesley, A.; Go, C.; Pérez-Hoyos, S.; Wong, M. H.; Fletcher, L. N.; Sánchez-Lavega, A.; Boslough, M. B. E.; de Pater, I.; Orton, G. S.; Simon-Miller, A. A.; Djorgovski, S. G.; Edwards, M. L.; Hammel, H. B.; Clarke, J. T.; Noll, K. S.; Yanamandra-Fisher, P. A. (1 October 2010). "First Earth-Based Detection of a Superbolide on Jupiter". The Astrophysical Journal. 721 (2): L129 – L133. arXiv:1009.1824. Bibcode:2010ApJ...721L.129H. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/721/2/L129. S2CID 37619282.
- "Impact mark on Jupiter, 19th July 2009". jupiter.samba.org. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- "Comet Crash Impact Times Request". www2.jpl.nasa.gov. NASA JPL. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- Cook, A.F.; Duxbury, T.C. (1981). "A Fireball in Jupiter's Atmosphere". J. Geophys. Res. 86 (A10): 8815–8817. Bibcode:1981JGR....86.8815C. doi:10.1029/JA086iA10p08815.
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