By Ron Cowen
Editor’s Note: For the latest on the Hubble Space Telescope’s search for a bruise on Jupiter, see Ron Cowen’s post in the Deleted Scenes blog.
View a video of the fireball
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Jupiter got smacked again. On June 3, the same day NASA released new images of a bruise left on the giant planet when an impactor struck it July 19, 2009, two amateur astronomers found fiery evidence of a new collision.
Christopher Go of Cebu City in the Philippines and Anthony Wesley, observing the planet from Broken Hill, Australia, both recorded on video a small but brilliant fireball on the giant planet that astronomers say was generated by another collision with a nearby, as-yet-unidentified body. The videos, which show the flare brightening and fading over the course of about two seconds, appear to show the first time that a planetary impact on the sunlit side of Jupiter has been discovered and monitored in real time.