Wires, NYTimes, Register, etc: Hubble photos show more of Jupiter’s big splat
Following ast week’s big media hurrah for the Australian amateur who brought to world attention a comet or asteroid impact near Jupiter’s south pole NASA has released the best-yet photos. The Hubble Space Telescope got them. The imagery reveals not just a dark blemish, but a turbulent-looking splash getting stretched out by wind shear. Notable is that Hubble’s managers, while still immersed in the checkout phase of getting the new instruments recently installed by shuttle astronauts into tune, paused to allow planetary astronomers on Thursday a few hours at the helm to see what’s up on Jupiter. There is not a great deal of new news to it but the photo along (super high res. here) is worth putting up in case ksjtracker reader’s missed it. Plus, we can gather up a few stories that, after the initial burst of news, took a deeper look at its implications.
By the way, a rare double sort-of byline, complete with misspelling, ran at Saturday’s Kansas City Star site. The top credits “Star news services” and the bottom identifies them, notably, as Dennis Overbye of the NYTimes, David Pearlman (cq) of the SF Chronicle, and the AP. Neat to see two veterans in one signer except, of course, it’s Perlman.
Other Stories:
- CBC (Can) News : Hubble captures Jupiter’s new spot ;
- AP: Hubble image shows debris from Jupiter collision ;
- NY Times – Dennis Overbye : Jupiter: Our Cosmic Protector ; The pic, plus an engaging back-and-forth discussion with Overbye’s sources where, on balance, Jupiter deflects more impactors away from Earth than its gravity slingshots in our direction.
- Christian Science Monitor – Peter N. Spotts: Jupiter collision packed a huge wallop ;
- SpaceflightNow – Stephen Clark: Rejuvenated Hubble spied giant impact scar on Jupiter ;
- Register (UK) Lester Haines: Hubbble snaps fallout from Jupiter impact ;
Grist for the Mill: NASA-HST Press Release ;
-CP
