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

[Steven Kolins]

On Aug 24, 2010, at 106PM, dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de wrote:

>> Third confirmation - and an historical note that Voyager spotted one
>> too....
> 
> As did - it seems - groundbased observers who in 1983 saw Io get much
> brighter for a short time, probably lit by an impact fireball on the far
> side of Jupiter. Was reported in Nature 366, 117 (1993) by Hammel &
> Nelson. Makes one wonder how many papers (and raw data!) like that are
> still slumbering in some files!

<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v366/n6451/abs/366117a0.html>

And I've passed on the info too.

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