# Something hit Jupiter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582 "2009-07-20T02:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/21 "2009-07-22T02:50:41Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > I swear I’m not a misanthropic sociopath, but I have always been fascinated by impact events. I think it started when, as a young kid, I first read about the Tunguska explosion. > > Don’t get me wrong, I am LOVING life, but post-apocalyptic fiction has created a soft spot in my heart for a near ELE during my lifetime. Oh well. [Relevant comic.](http://xkcd.com/611/) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/22 "2009-07-22T03:07:26Z")
I think a Chicxulub-sized asteroid strike on the Moon would be pretty cool to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/23 "2009-07-22T03:28:34Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I think a Chicxulub-sized asteroid strike on the Moon would be pretty cool to watch. The Tick would [thwart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairface_Chippendale) it before it even got done writing “CHI”. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/24 "2009-07-22T17:44:42Z")
It’s the immigrants, even when it was the bears, I knew it was them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/25 "2009-07-22T17:54:41Z")
And this happens just a few years after Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. Coincidence? I think not. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/26 "2009-07-22T22:33:00Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > I swear I’m not a misanthropic sociopath, but I have always been fascinated by impact events. I think it started when, as a young kid, I first read about the Tunguska explosion. > > Don’t get me wrong, I am LOVING life, but post-apocalyptic fiction has created a soft spot in my heart for a near ELE during my lifetime. Oh well. You know I’ve always felt that way myself but I was just too scared to verbalize it out loud because I felt slightly creepy for feeling that way. Good to know I’m not alone! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/27 "2009-07-23T01:57:43Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > And this happens just a few years after Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. Coincidence? I think not. Yeah, has anyone seen Pluto lately? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/28 "2009-07-23T02:23:35Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > Yeah, has anyone seen Pluto lately? _Awww, never go to Pluto! It’s a Mickey Mouse planet!_ -Mork from Ork. (Decades before Pluto was demoted, even the aliens knew!) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/29 "2009-07-23T04:00:01Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > Yeah, has anyone seen Pluto lately? Nope… I think it’s skulking around out there with those other Trans-Neptunian ne’er-do-wells. It’s gotten into bad company. Makemake is pissed because of its name (understandably); Eris is pissed because no-one takes it seriously (“Erisian”? It is to laugh); and Haumea is pissed because no-one ever remembers it. Expect more outbusts of icy temper from Pluto’s direction. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/30 "2009-07-23T05:30:22Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > Yeah, has anyone seen Pluto lately? The Grebulons blew it up, Rupert is it’s replacement ---
**Author:** ![Stalingraduate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Stalingraduate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stalingraduate)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/31 "2009-07-23T08:08:31Z")
No, no, no. Jupiter wasn’t hit by anything. It just fell down the stairs, that’s all. You know how clumsy Jupiter can be. Why don’t you mind your own business? > [@Mooch](#): > > I swear I’m not a misanthropic sociopath, but I have always been fascinated by impact events. I think it started when, as a young kid, I first read about the Tunguska explosion. > > Don’t get me wrong, I am LOVING life, but post-apocalyptic fiction has created a soft spot in my heart for a near ELE during my lifetime. Oh well. > [@SHAKES](#): > > You know I’ve always felt that way myself but I was just too scared to verbalize it out loud because I felt slightly creepy for feeling that way. > > Good to know I’m not alone! 😃 High five, looking-forward-to-our-inevitable-doom buddies. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/32 "2009-07-25T23:26:52Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Darn, it seems Hubble is still being calibrated, any chance they would point to Jupiter and damn the calibration and get some images? Damn the calibration! Full speed ahead! > **[BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hubble pictures Jupiter's 'scar'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8168403.stm)** > > The refurbished Hubble telescope focuses on the result of an apparent comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter. > [@](#): > > Engineers at the US space agency, Nasa, interrupted the post-servicing commissioning of the refurbished Hubble to use the WFC-3. > > “Because we believe this magnitude of impact is rare, we are very fortunate to see it with Hubble,” said Amy Simon-Miller of Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. > > “Details seen in the Hubble view show a lumpiness to the debris plume caused by turbulence in Jupiter’s atmosphere.” > > The pictures augur well for Hubble. Its servicing should give it several more years of life. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/33 "2009-07-26T00:19:56Z")
Jupiter: Would you hit that? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582/34 "2009-07-26T01:04:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Jupiter: Would you hit that? It sucks you in, irresistably. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-hit-jupiter/503582.md?page=1)