ILLUSTRATION. Jupiter as the largest planet in the solar system was hit by a space rock
Writer: Arif Budianto
KONTAN.CO.ID – Jakarta. Jupiter, which is the largest planet in the solar system, has just been hit by a space rock. Captured by amateur cameras, you can see the light twinkling around the planet.
Do you remember the lesson in elementary school about the largest planet in the solar system? Jupiter, this one planet lined up as the largest planet in our solar system.
The latest news about the largest planet has just been hit by a space rock. Quote from Space, a planetary observer from Brazil, Jose Luis Pereira captured the event with the usual equipment used.
On Sunday (12 September) and Monday (13 September), Pereira installed equipment in Sao Caetano do Sul in the southeastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. As on any other night, he aimed to photograph Jupiter and record video for the DeTeCt program, which seeks to find and characterize impacts on the giant planet.
At first Pereira did not realize what exactly the light that appeared around the planet Jupiter was. In the morning, September 14th, he checked again video It and its program warn that the most likely impacts are extraterrestrial objects, including rocks.
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Video of light appears around Jupiter as a result of being hit by space rocks
However, Jupiter is a planet that can be called a “boxing bag”. This giant planet is often hit by other objects in space.
Jupiter orbits in the main asteroid belt and has a strong gravitational pull, which is why this giant planet is hit quite often. 27 years ago, debris from the infamous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter.
Creates massive bruising in the planet’s thick atmosphere that lasts for months.
The scar also opened a rare window into Jupiter beneath the cloud tops, and professional astronomers seized the moment. They studied the site of the collision with various telescopes, revealing knowledge about the composition of the gas giant’s atmosphere.
