Impact: amateurs observe Jupiter taking another for the team

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Jupiter is a major player in protecting the Earth from impact events, and has been for billions of years. Between comets and asteroids impacting on Jupiter and being flung into the Sun or out of the Solar System entirely, Jupiter's enormous gravitational field has removed the greater proportion of debris left-over from the formation of the Solar System. Jupiter has again been caught in the act of attracting and eating dangerous space rocks—this time in simultaneous observations by two amateur astronomers... Continue Reading Impact: amateurs observe Jupiter taking another for the team

Section: Science and Education

Tags: Asteroid, Impact, Jupiter, Kinetic Energy, Solar System, Space, Space Travel, Telescope

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