(meteorobs) [comets-ml] Looks like another impact on Jupiter onAugust 20

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Tue Aug 24 10:19:26 EDT 2010


It is reported to have been caught on two cameras, hundreds of kilometers 
apart.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay at tcworks.net>
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Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) [comets-ml] Looks like another impact on Jupiter 
onAugust 20


> Goodness, not to throw a stone in the parade, but the image is not at all 
> convincing to
> me; for one thing, the resolution (very poor contrast, sharpness and 
> apparently poor
> seeing) of the Jovian disk is quite unsharp when compared to the image of 
> the "flash."
> which looks suspiciously of very high sharpness.
> Hopefully there can be some confirmation of this from others.
> I am certainly not at all convinced from this one image.
>
> Clay




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