The moment was captured, the largest planet in the solar system was hit by an asteroid again

Writer: Arif Budianto

KONTAN.CO.ID – The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, has been hit again by an asteroid. The moment was successfully captured by the owner of a Twitter account from Japan (@yotsuyubi21) using a telescope.

As we know, Jupiter is one of the largest planets in the solar system. So big, according to NASA quoted from site Officially, Jupiter is 11 times larger than Earth.

If the Earth is a nickel, then Jupiter is the size of a basketball.

Despite its large size, Jupiter is often a punching bag for celestial bodies such as asteroids. Not the first, the phenomenon of Jupiter being hit by an asteroid has been immortalized again by the owner of a Twitter account from Japan (@ yotsuyubi21).

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Quote from Space, on Friday (15/10/2021). Skywatchers in Japan observe flashes of the planet’s northern hemisphere atmosphere possibly caused by an asteroid hitting Jupiter. This is the second time the flash has appeared after a Brazilian observer saw a similar moment.

“The flash feels like it’s been shining for a very long time to me,” said one Twitter user (@ yotsuyubi21) who managed to capture the moment using the Celestron C6 telescope, to Space.

They confirmed the observations with a team led by Ko Arimatsu, an astronomer from Kyoto University, Japan who took part in the project Organized Autotelescopes for Serendipitous Event Survey (OASES).

OASES itself is an optical observation project that aims to detect and investigate stellar occultation events by kilometers of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Arvix.

In a tweet posted by the project, the observations included two different types of light: visible and infrared flashes. In some cases, there are specks of red light that appear on the planet Jupiter when viewed from a telescope.

Another factor that causes Jupiter to often become a punching bag is due to the strong gravitational pull associated with its mass. Smaller objects, such as asteroids flying through the solar system, can easily be pulled into the planet’s thick, turbulent atmosphere.

Some studies even show that objects measuring 15 feet (45 meters) hit Jupiter on average every few months. Due to insufficient monitoring and monitoring programs, the moment is captured at least one or more times per year.

Observers are still not sure whether the asteroid impact on Jupiter had an impact or not. Including how the characteristics of the asteroid that hit Jupiter, such as the size of the object.

Following video the moment when Jupiter was hit by an asteroid that was captured by the Twitter account owner (@ yotsuyubi21):