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A dark spot on Jupiter

Published on 29 Jul 2009 at 11:48 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under Jupiter, astronomy, observing.

Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley took an image of Jupiter on July 19 showing a dark spot on the planet.   The spot looked remarkably like the sort of impact features left when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter in July 1994.  In fact, a lot of people very quickly announced that this was another impact on […]

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