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Friday, August 9, 2019
Jupiter - a target again - amateur detects impact on the giant planet!
It has happened a number of times in the past - in fact, 7 recorded impacts since July of 1994. Texas amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel recorded this latest impact while waiting for some Perseid meteors to flash across the night sky. His Celestron 8 telescope captured the event as a flash of light in the planet's South Equatorial Belt (SEB).
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