It was discovered by Brazilian scientist Jose Luis Pereira during a routine investigation of Jupiter. An object crashes into Jupiter. No such incident has been reported so far. This was observed by Pereira using a QHY5III462C camera with a Newtonian 275mm F5.3 telescope at the Sao Caitano do Sul in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was…
The “flash” of the impact was large enough to be seen through the telescope from Earth.The size of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 16,350 km (April 2017). This spot is 1.3 times the size of Earth’s.There are other spots on Jupiter that are thousands of kilometers in diameter. Perhaps this “object” that might fall to…
