By comparing their simulations of the 2009 impact event with simulations of the Shoemaker ... The disturbances in Jupiter's atmosphere from the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact were significantly larger ...

TOKYO, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Amateur astronomers in Japan have observed a fireball on Jupiter in an apparent impact event, the third ... a spectacular crash July 19, 2009, when what scientists now ...

Jupiter is a major player in protecting the Earth from impact events, and has been for billions ... All of these have occurred since 2009, owing to the rapid advance in amateur astronomical ...

Since the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event, scientists have seen five other impacts at Jupiter, according to astronomer Heidi Hammel. "Jupiter watchers have since seen a big impact site in 2009 subsequently ...

(CNN)-- Jupiter ... an impact on Jupiter. The first happened 15 years ago, when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke into 21 pieces and hit the planet's atmosphere. "Given the rarity of these events ...

Astronomers studying a 2009 collision on Jupiter believe that the ... publication of two studies of the Jupiter impact in the journal Icarus. This event registered big time. Prior to this ...

The 2009 impact on Jupiter came from an object larger than ... but we'd have extinction-level events thousands of times as often as we actually do! The "dinosaur-killing" asteroid was a 5-10 ...

But for someone to catch an impact event, you’ll need the right ... scientists have caught Jupiter impacts in 2009, twice in 2010, and in 2012. In addition to the impacts scientists have ...

In a 2018 Astronomy & Astrophysics paper titled “Small impacts on the giant planet Jupiter ... but larger events have occurred. Most notable was the July 19, 2009, dark impact scar discovered ...