2016 Jupiter impact event information

a comet. Impact events on Jupiter Plait, Phil. "Jupiter Got Whacked by Yet Another Asteroid/Comet!". Slate magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2016. Beatty,...

numerous impact events on Jupiter have been observed, the most significant of which was the collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1994. Jupiter is the...

In recorded history, the planet Jupiter has experienced impact events and has been probed and photographed by several spacecraft. Galileo spacecraft entry...

An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. Impact events have been found to regularly occur in planetary systems...

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. A gas giant, Jupiter's mass is more than two and a half times that of all...

surface, leaving no impact crater. The Tunguska event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts occurred in prehistoric...

asteroid impact that created the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico, and in 1994 with the collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter.: 79–82 ...

have a different origin from comets, having formed inside the orbit of Jupiter rather than in the outer Solar System. However, the discovery of main-belt...

make Jupiter the most visited of the Solar System's outer planets as all missions to the outer Solar System have used Jupiter flybys. On 5 July 2016, spacecraft...

meteor velocity of 5-15 km/s, an impact angle of 45°, and a density of 1-3 g/cm3 Impact event Impact events on Jupiter Marsquake "NASA's InSight Lander...

The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the cavity created in the solar wind by Jupiter's magnetic field. Extending up to seven million kilometers in the Sun's...

renamed "Lita Kino" in some English adaptations), better known as Sailor Jupiter (セーラージュピター, Sērā Jupitā), is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon manga...

in the possibility of serial impacts on Earth was piqued by observations of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impacting on Jupiter in 1994. It has been estimated...

Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory toward the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and enabled further encounters with the ice giants Uranus and...

than Jupiter) Galileo Spacecraft (a mission that included both an orbiter and an atmospheric-entry probe) Juno probe 2009 Jupiter impact event 2010 Jupiter...

about the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 on Jupiter. Many stories involve attempts to alter asteroid trajectories...

is not confirmed as an impact event. Yeomans, Don; Chodas, Paul (1 March 2013). "Additional Details on the Large Fireball Event over Russia on Feb. 15...

that an impact winter could lead to mass extinction, wiping out many of the world's existing species. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event probably...

impact sites, from 253,000 km. Media related to the Voyager 1 Jupiter encounter at Wikimedia Commons The gravitational assist trajectories at Jupiter...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede...

astronauts. Isotopic dating showed that the rocks were last molten during impact events in a rather narrow interval of time, suggesting that a large proportion...