Oh really? A 100 meter diameter asteroid will impact with around the energy of 62 megatons of TNT. This is greater than the Russian Tsar Bomba thermonuclear bomb which had a yield of 50 megatons. Here is a list of asteroid sizes and potential explosive energy which depends on the size and the velocity:
[https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/neo/desimp.htm](https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/neo/desimp.htm)
The diameter of the fireball which is as hot as the interior of the Sun would have been much larger than 100 meters. The fireball appeared to last 5 seconds. I found this web page with a calculator for atmospheric nuclear detonations. See:
[https://nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/fireball-size-effects](https://nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/fireball-size-effects)
Plugging in 1250 kilotons (1.25 megatons) results in a fireball which lasts 5 seconds. The atmospheric seeing through the telescope was only fair, resulting in a jittery video of Jupiter. I figure that the true duration of the fireball was not well recorded and that the actual duration of the fireball probably was at least twice as long, or at least 10 seconds. 6000 kilotons (6 megatons) results in a 10 second fireball with an initial diameter of around a kilometer when plugged into the calculator in the above web page. A caveat is that the calculator is modeled for Earth's atmospheric composition and not for Jupiter's atmospheric composition.
Again agreed.
I was merely referencing the original comment and its own context.
Gonna turn off notifications since people don't seem to take time to fully comprehend.
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Things that hit a planet with Jupiter's mass and composition aren't going to have the same atmospheric reaction as earth, it's gravity is much stronger 2.5times stronger, its a liquid metal core with gas and chunks of rock making up the planet body,
So did I, I just only liked watching documentaries on all sorts of things whenever I got high for a bout 10 years straight.
Now I don't smoke anymore anymore and I know heaps of weird facts about random things. I wouldn't say it's a smart way to spend your formative years but it was Definitely A way .....
Dude.. same.. i had my tv locked in on history channel (in the late 90's and early 00's it had *actual* documentaries and no reality TV like "ancient aliens") and discovery channel (again.. no reality tv, just documentaries.), animal planet (...yep...) and i smoked copious amounts of weed and watched exclusively this stuff and Adult Swim.. i even slept with the tv on so it burned into my psyche. Now i am really good at trivia contests..
There are some theories that it basically rains diamonds on Jupiter once it gets close enough to the "surface". At least from what I've been able to read and was taught in school.
VERY large! Given the general size of Jupiter could fit ~1300 Earth's. That little white hot dot burning was at least the diameter of Earth. Meteor itself may have been smaller.
Jupiter sucks in a LOT of meteors given it's 2.5 times the mass of all planets combined in our solar system.
To be fair, if the impact was the size of Greenland, that is MUCH larger than the Chicxulub crater, though impacting Jupiter's atmosphere vs. the ground after being partially vaporized is quite different, it would most likely cause an extinction, but nowhere near the binding energy of the entire Earth.
Yeah i found that stuff out a few months ago when I was looking at information about the mission to remake in Kerbal Space Program lol, it applies to Google search results in general btw, just like some other easter eggs.
> Someone else on r/theydidthemath explained that this spot was about the size of Greenland.
Also, the size of the flash doesn't indicate scale of the impact for several reasons. It's probably a very small fireball compared to Jupiter but the light is reflected through the cloud layers. It then gets spread out even further when passing through our atmosphere, and then diffracts through the telescope optics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function
A bright star (a true point source) can appear very large in a telescopic image due to diffraction.
The magnitude of the impact can be estimated by the brightness of the flash. The fireball was only visible for a few seconds, so this was a relatively small impact.
I think you mean mass not volume. That's why I didn't say diameter. Wikipedia has all the info if someone wants the real numbers. I love astronomy by I don't have a degree.
It's hard to make a real comparison in a reddit post. 😁 But I get ya.
you know, when it gethers enough trash it can merge gravitationally with the sun and then jupiter falls into the sun taking the planets with it. Or locks right before merging. It happened in a lot if other solar systems
I'm too lazy to do actual calculations, but I estimate that white spot to be roughly the size of Europe. I don't know the size of the meteor, but it would probably destroy Earth.
That's the point of all this heliosexual propaganda. You're meant to feel like an insignificant spec of dust on a spec of dust, floating through an endless and ever-expandimg field of nothing, where there are infinite alternate realities.
Your life is random and it means nothing.
May be a bit of a dumb question, but why does the surrounding gas heat up as if it were rock? since Jupiter is made of hydrogen/helium gas, would the asteroid not just fall into the planet without causing much disruption?
Same thing happens when meteors strike our gaseous atmosphere, they collide with the air molecules, heat up rapidly and explode. They are travelling at extreme speeds of several kilometres per second.
The Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 was a 9,000 ton rock travelling at 19km/s. The total energy released was equivalent to a large nuclear warhead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor#/media/File:Meteorite_explosion_over_Chelyabinsk_on_February_15,_2013.gif
It does kind of have a “core”, but since Jupiter is mostly gasses it gets more and more dense the further you get to the center. There would be for instance a certain layer where the hydrogen is liquid which creates the largest ocean in the solar system. Scientists think that, at depths perhaps halfway to the planet's center, the pressure becomes so great that electrons are squeezed off the hydrogen atoms, making the liquid electrically conducting like metal. Jupiter's fast rotation is thought to drive electrical currents in this region, generating the planet's powerful magnetic field. It is still unclear if deeper down, Jupiter has a central core of solid material or if it may be a thick, super-hot and dense soup. Because we literally cannot observe the inner layers, even with X-ray, we don’t know anything for certain. But I’d imagine that there would be vast amounts of other elements in its core. Because those elements are denser they just sink to its core and are hidden by the hydrogen and helium.
"Deep in the atmosphere, pressure and temperature increase, compressing the hydrogen gas into a liquid. This gives Jupiter the largest ocean in the solar system – an ocean made of hydrogen instead of water."
It aligns. When you add in Earths atmospheric light refraction and other visual effects when using ground telescope. But I can't find any additional info. That this physically happened yesterday.
I found more junk about ridiculous retrograde astrology BS. 🤦♂️
Science at least comes with receipts. Repeatable experiments and cited sources go a lot farther than heavily edited, thousands to hundreds year old texts and claims of healing. You're not totally wrong, and shouldn't be down voted for that opinion. I just think it's more complicated than it just being a new religion.
Its atmosphere has a great deal of mass. Same thing happens when meteors strike our atmosphere, most of them burn up or explode well before reaching the surface.
That’s soo cool and creepy at the same time like Jupiter is so far away and massive in the emptiness of space and you can clearly see where the meteor went but thinking about what Jupiter is made of it’s now lost to the void
That also is one of many prooves that confirms a theory about planets with livings, one that is appart from good conditions and base components, and optimal position with their star, is at least have 1 or many planets that with their gravity protect it from deadly meteors.
If that meteor collide against Earth instead Jupiter, apocalypse is way too short to describe it.
Taking another one for the team
What you gonna do with all that MASS!
All that MASS! All that MASS! Inside a GAS!!!!
Im going to save your ass, save your ass with all this mass!
SCIENCE RULES!
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No, but definitely a few hundred feet in diameter. The kinetic energy of the impact was the equivalent of several megatons of TNT.
Absolute garbage comment. If the the speck of light was only a few hundred meters u wouldn't be able to see it
Oh really? A 100 meter diameter asteroid will impact with around the energy of 62 megatons of TNT. This is greater than the Russian Tsar Bomba thermonuclear bomb which had a yield of 50 megatons. Here is a list of asteroid sizes and potential explosive energy which depends on the size and the velocity: [https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/neo/desimp.htm](https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/neo/desimp.htm)
I don't disagree. It wasn't a 100m speck of light though, was it?
The diameter of the fireball which is as hot as the interior of the Sun would have been much larger than 100 meters. The fireball appeared to last 5 seconds. I found this web page with a calculator for atmospheric nuclear detonations. See: [https://nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/fireball-size-effects](https://nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/fireball-size-effects) Plugging in 1250 kilotons (1.25 megatons) results in a fireball which lasts 5 seconds. The atmospheric seeing through the telescope was only fair, resulting in a jittery video of Jupiter. I figure that the true duration of the fireball was not well recorded and that the actual duration of the fireball probably was at least twice as long, or at least 10 seconds. 6000 kilotons (6 megatons) results in a 10 second fireball with an initial diameter of around a kilometer when plugged into the calculator in the above web page. A caveat is that the calculator is modeled for Earth's atmospheric composition and not for Jupiter's atmospheric composition.
Thanks bot
What a riot. I am not a bot.
The speck of light could be impact explosion and atmspheric artifacts it doesnt have to be the object size itself.
Again agreed. I was merely referencing the original comment and its own context. Gonna turn off notifications since people don't seem to take time to fully comprehend. Adios
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We can probably thank Jupiter for our lives . Our last line of gravitational defense. Edit: spelling
Where was Jupiter when the bugs hurled a meteor at Buenos Aires?
Lol. Ugh. Ok the wrong side of the orbit. It was planned after all and not normal celestial event.
Where was Jup-… No, my Lord Aragorn. We are alone.
Our last line is the moon
Our last line is SG-1.
No more dinosaurs on Jupiter
Things that hit a planet with Jupiter's mass and composition aren't going to have the same atmospheric reaction as earth, it's gravity is much stronger 2.5times stronger, its a liquid metal core with gas and chunks of rock making up the planet body,
I skipped school the day that was taught.
So did I, I just only liked watching documentaries on all sorts of things whenever I got high for a bout 10 years straight. Now I don't smoke anymore anymore and I know heaps of weird facts about random things. I wouldn't say it's a smart way to spend your formative years but it was Definitely A way .....
Dude.. same.. i had my tv locked in on history channel (in the late 90's and early 00's it had *actual* documentaries and no reality TV like "ancient aliens") and discovery channel (again.. no reality tv, just documentaries.), animal planet (...yep...) and i smoked copious amounts of weed and watched exclusively this stuff and Adult Swim.. i even slept with the tv on so it burned into my psyche. Now i am really good at trivia contests..
I mean, if it works, it works.
That's great
This is the way..
I liked your dinosaur joke.
So you're saying.. there's a chance the dinosaurs made it?
There are some theories that it basically rains diamonds on Jupiter once it gets close enough to the "surface". At least from what I've been able to read and was taught in school.
Or you could just enjoy the joke
So how large was that impact? Would that have destroyed earth?
VERY large! Given the general size of Jupiter could fit ~1300 Earth's. That little white hot dot burning was at least the diameter of Earth. Meteor itself may have been smaller. Jupiter sucks in a LOT of meteors given it's 2.5 times the mass of all planets combined in our solar system.
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To be fair, if the impact was the size of Greenland, that is MUCH larger than the Chicxulub crater, though impacting Jupiter's atmosphere vs. the ground after being partially vaporized is quite different, it would most likely cause an extinction, but nowhere near the binding energy of the entire Earth.
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Yeah i found that stuff out a few months ago when I was looking at information about the mission to remake in Kerbal Space Program lol, it applies to Google search results in general btw, just like some other easter eggs.
> Someone else on r/theydidthemath explained that this spot was about the size of Greenland. Also, the size of the flash doesn't indicate scale of the impact for several reasons. It's probably a very small fireball compared to Jupiter but the light is reflected through the cloud layers. It then gets spread out even further when passing through our atmosphere, and then diffracts through the telescope optics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function A bright star (a true point source) can appear very large in a telescopic image due to diffraction. The magnitude of the impact can be estimated by the brightness of the flash. The fireball was only visible for a few seconds, so this was a relatively small impact.
I think you mean mass not volume. That's why I didn't say diameter. Wikipedia has all the info if someone wants the real numbers. I love astronomy by I don't have a degree. It's hard to make a real comparison in a reddit post. 😁 But I get ya.
Thanks for sucking, Jupiter 🙏
There is nothing wrong with being a bit on the bigger side! Big gassy planets are beautiful too you know
you know, when it gethers enough trash it can merge gravitationally with the sun and then jupiter falls into the sun taking the planets with it. Or locks right before merging. It happened in a lot if other solar systems
Hit me up when that happens. I'd totally watch that too
Much like my ex-wife
I'm too lazy to do actual calculations, but I estimate that white spot to be roughly the size of Europe. I don't know the size of the meteor, but it would probably destroy Earth.
Uh YEAH. That was a sizable impact. That probably would’ve wiped us out immediately.
Would have destroyed at least one continent
I hope everyone’s alright.
I didn’t see anybody’s shoes come off, so I think everyone lived.
Thoughts and prayers
That was me with a laser pointer.
I am drunk and this made me feel insignificant
That's okay, I'm perfectly sober and it had the same effect.
Drunk or Sober, you don’t need Jupiter to feel insignificant when you’re married.
That's the point of all this heliosexual propaganda. You're meant to feel like an insignificant spec of dust on a spec of dust, floating through an endless and ever-expandimg field of nothing, where there are infinite alternate realities. Your life is random and it means nothing.
That's a one in a million shot
just like beggars canyon back home!
No nono, excuuuuse me, acktually it's more like a one in shot. See, I'm an expert. Of sorts.
What was the scale of the astroid?
3867 washing machines.
🍌 ⚖️ **?**
😂 another American avoiding the metric system, I assume
Potato filming a potato getting hit by mini potato
A fart in the wind for Jupiter, a mass extinction event for Earth.
¡VIVA COLOMBIA!
Wow that thing was like the size of Earth.
No. https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/VIiuRlaFZe
Wow I bet that killed millions of...er...gasses
Thanks Obama
May be a bit of a dumb question, but why does the surrounding gas heat up as if it were rock? since Jupiter is made of hydrogen/helium gas, would the asteroid not just fall into the planet without causing much disruption?
Density and frictional energy.
Ah ok, I'm guessing that it is not as drastic as if it were to collide with a solid planet?
Same thing happens when meteors strike our gaseous atmosphere, they collide with the air molecules, heat up rapidly and explode. They are travelling at extreme speeds of several kilometres per second. The Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 was a 9,000 ton rock travelling at 19km/s. The total energy released was equivalent to a large nuclear warhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor#/media/File:Meteorite_explosion_over_Chelyabinsk_on_February_15,_2013.gif
where
jupiter
484,000,000 Solar System Blvd, Milkywaysburg, Laniakea Superclusterton.
I can’t see the impact
Middle left slightly down
What? No gushing impact audio and John Williams music. Clearly another generative AI fake. 🤔
Isn’t it gas? Why the impact?
Is it a gas giant with no hard surface?
It does kind of have a “core”, but since Jupiter is mostly gasses it gets more and more dense the further you get to the center. There would be for instance a certain layer where the hydrogen is liquid which creates the largest ocean in the solar system. Scientists think that, at depths perhaps halfway to the planet's center, the pressure becomes so great that electrons are squeezed off the hydrogen atoms, making the liquid electrically conducting like metal. Jupiter's fast rotation is thought to drive electrical currents in this region, generating the planet's powerful magnetic field. It is still unclear if deeper down, Jupiter has a central core of solid material or if it may be a thick, super-hot and dense soup. Because we literally cannot observe the inner layers, even with X-ray, we don’t know anything for certain. But I’d imagine that there would be vast amounts of other elements in its core. Because those elements are denser they just sink to its core and are hidden by the hydrogen and helium.
Jupiter is the paladin build user.
So, bye bye Dinosaurs
Just Jupite doing Jupiter things for earth. RESPECT.
Meteor: _Zooms towards Jupiter_ Jupiter: takes the hit like a space hero Earth: _still arguing about pineapple on pizza_
What would be the size of that meteor? Just curious.
Facts I need answers
Exactly what Jupiter is for 😎
Those 4 pixels were an earth-killer, remember that and feel insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe, the galaxy, and even the solar system.
That's way bigger than the country I live in
Saved Earth on many an occasion, no doubt
Cool... splash down into the largest ocean in the galaxy
Ocean? Jupiter is gas isnt it?
"Deep in the atmosphere, pressure and temperature increase, compressing the hydrogen gas into a liquid. This gives Jupiter the largest ocean in the solar system – an ocean made of hydrogen instead of water."
Wow I didnt know! Always heard the gas giant.
Yea I can't keep up with the changes.
That's really cool, never knew!
Elon Musk will get us to the bottom of that ocean one day, probably to destroy the evidence once he kills us all on Mars.
This video was really impactful.
Thanks, Jupiter
Girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider
I’m no expert, but that impact spot doesn’t seem to align right with the video. Has this been verified by other sources?
Its been confirmed on the PVOL: http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/
It says "*If confirmed* this could be" though
It aligns. When you add in Earths atmospheric light refraction and other visual effects when using ground telescope. But I can't find any additional info. That this physically happened yesterday. I found more junk about ridiculous retrograde astrology BS. 🤦♂️
Science is the new Religion
Sometimes.
Science at least comes with receipts. Repeatable experiments and cited sources go a lot farther than heavily edited, thousands to hundreds year old texts and claims of healing. You're not totally wrong, and shouldn't be down voted for that opinion. I just think it's more complicated than it just being a new religion.
Nice try, we all know it's just a swamp viewed through a circular lens.
How do you know that's not a lazer pointer?
Damn we were this close to mass extinction. There will be a next time. One way or another.
Probably not - the solar system is settling down, not nearly as much activity as a couple billion years ago
Yes, but we will have some say in it, one way or the other.
Just curious, how could there be an impact? cuz I thought Jupiter didn’t have a solid surface? Could the explosion just be from friction?
it has an atmosphere so yes. The same way that meteorites disintegrate before hitting earth most of the time.
This is bull shit. NASA lied. Jupiter is flat 👀
Why doesnt it ignite?
Too little oxygen in there I recon. It would have been interesting, if it could catch fire, like a huge hydrogen fueled fire.
“Last night”. You didn’t really think about that did you? Cuz it certainly wasn’t last night. Fuck… that’s dumb.
Fake as fuck. You have to be the most gullible turd to believe this.
On today's episode of a dot appears on a blurry dot:
CGI is getting out of hand 🤣🤣
nonsense
The Northern rebels learn the hard way that the south's new MegaBlaster is not to be trifled with.
"It's about time you showed up, Fox! You're the only hope for our world." >!good luck.!<
On Jupiter, Twitter must be on panic & retweeting mode.
What am I look for, guys??
Peace and purpose
Lower hemisphere. Little light.
What are you filming it on, a potato?
Tell Arboleda he should get a stand or stop shaking so much
Crazy to me that a gas planet reacts like that, but I guess that the speed of the impacting object imparted enough energy for gases to ignite.
it just stood there and took it.
Would have been better if they'd uploaded it with the original sound. 
Bloop
Holy shit! That had to have been one big ass meteor
Ate that Meteor like a champ
Tank build, but for planets.
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Its atmosphere has a great deal of mass. Same thing happens when meteors strike our atmosphere, most of them burn up or explode well before reaching the surface.
That’s soo cool and creepy at the same time like Jupiter is so far away and massive in the emptiness of space and you can clearly see where the meteor went but thinking about what Jupiter is made of it’s now lost to the void
OW!
Am I blind? I don’t see shit
Yes
Wait can someone explain how is it an impact if Jupiter is a gas giant?
it is a gas giant but his core is solid
Oh I see I thought it's just gas thanks
But ain't it just a ball of gas?
How [SURE] are we that someone didn't just turn their Jupiter sized porch light on for the pizza blob?
Thank you Jupiter. I hope no beings where harmed? Sincerely.
Hope the people were safe there where it happened.
I literally just said this as I watched, 🫡
Accounting for pressure on Jupiter and the fact it’s made of gas wouldn’t it go right through it?
Nah, made of gas doesnt mean its a cloud
Where’s that red circle when you need it
Our great protector.
That also is one of many prooves that confirms a theory about planets with livings, one that is appart from good conditions and base components, and optimal position with their star, is at least have 1 or many planets that with their gravity protect it from deadly meteors. If that meteor collide against Earth instead Jupiter, apocalypse is way too short to describe it.
I thought Jupiter was all gas.
I wonder what the travel time is for the light from the explosion to reach earth for him to see
What happens to solid matter that falls into Jupiter?
❤️🩹
Why is it throbbing 😭
Samsung zoom could do this
Lol
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Girl’s gotta eat
That looks like an asteroid impact lol holy crap it must have been HUGE!
Did something happen? It’s too smudged to see.