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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21533407h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #334.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.434
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On 19 July 2009, amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered an anomalous dark feature near Jupiter's south pole (planetographic latitude -58° system III west longitude 305°). Additional observations confirmed the new feature was an impact site created by an unknown object (the only other observed collision with Jupiter occurred 15 years earlier, when the shattered remains of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 created huge atmospheric disturbances). A world-wide observing campaign was initiated in response to this 2009 collision. We were awarded Directors Discretionary Time to use the newly-installed Wide-Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on Hubble Space Telescope. Observations were successfully obtained with WFC3 on July 23, August 3, and August 8, and with the Advanced Camera for Surveys' Solar Blind Channel in the UV on September 8. In this talk, we will present a summary of the HST images. The evolution of the impact debris field at UV, visible, near-IR wavelengths will be discussed, along with a comparison to Hubble observations of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact in 1994.
Clarke John T.
de Pater Imke
Fletcher Leigh N.
Hammel Heidi Beth
Hueso Ricardo
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