Possible impact on JUPITER

Something I came across showing a possible impact on Jupiter. Video is a blurry but it does show something near Jupiter.

a reply to: 1XKINET0

closing in on the outerspace seems to be happening mire often.

From the channel:

Last month, Japanese astronomers noticed a bright flash in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Further investigations revealed that this was an extremely powerful explosion, and was generated by a huge asteroid colliding with the gas giant. The scientists estimated that the asteroid impact was the equivalent of two megatons of TNT, with data showing that the asteroid weighed around 4 thousand tons.

Of course they say 'asteroid'.
As if anyone would admit it if it was something else?
(but it was probably an asteroid)

I wonder if they saw it coming?

Why is Jupiter called a gas giant when things keep smacking into it? If it was just gas should these objects just pass straight through it? Looks like there is something solid under its clouds.

a reply to: kwakakev

The extreme pressures and temperatures as you travel deeper into the planet would vaporise any asteroid and turn it into more gas, there's also a planet spanning ocean of liquid hydrogen to contend with. Any metallic object would melt.

Just look what happens when meteors hit our flimsy atmosphere.



As the meteor interacts with the gas molecules it causes friction and heat build-up, once that internal pressure reaches a point when the structure fails the rock will break up. The density of the gas combined with the size and speed of the meteor determines the amount of heat generated. Jupiter could easily absorb the entire Earth although that would be one hell of a collision and i'd image we'd penetrate deep into the internal structure of the planet before being completely vaporised.

originally posted by: kwakakev
Why is Jupiter called a gas giant when things keep smacking into it? If it was just gas should these objects just pass straight through it? Looks like there is something solid under its clouds.

Most asteroids/meteoroids burn up or explode in Earth's atmosphere before hitting anything solid. Consider the Chelyabinsk meteor from a few years ago.

Same with Jupiter. The gas on Jupiter is dense enough to create enough friction to heat up an asteroid and make it burn up and/or explode under the pressure caused by the heating -- just like Earth's atmosphere is dense enough.

Its the Hydrogues...

Pretty interesting. Maybe a weapons test from the x37b, say where is that little guy anyways, space type hypersonic missile?

originally posted by: kwakakev
Why is Jupiter called a gas giant when things keep smacking into it? If it was just gas should these objects just pass straight through it? Looks like there is something solid under its clouds.

The vast majority of it is hydrogen, with a large part of it being liquid or even metallic hydrogen from the pressure of such a vast body. The core is probably rocky and is anything from 7-25 times the mass of Earth.
So it's a gas giant, but the gas is under such pressure that most of it is not gaseous. I know, that sounds strange, but when you place some gases under the kind of pressure that Jupiter is in from its gravitational field, they behave in very interesting ways.
Oh and you can't pass straight through it, unless you skim the upper part of the atmosphere briefly. Please see anything on the Juno mission by NASA for more details. Fascinating stuff.