A Rock Slammed Into Jupiter Creating The Brightest Impact Flash In 28 Years
Last October , professional astronomers spotted a vivid flash on Jupiter . Something make the largest planet in the solar system , releasing the equivalent of two megatons of TNT worth of energy , corresponding to the Tunguska impact that rocked Siberia in 1908 . This was the most knock-down known shock Jupiter has received sincecomet Shoemaker - Levy 9smacked the planet in 1994 . The paper is available on the scientific discipline paper repositoryArXiv(pronounced archive ) and it is accepted for issue in The Astrophysical Journal Letters ....