Big Fireball on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers

This photo of Jupiter taken June 3, 2010 by Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley shows a bright fireball from an apparent meteor or other object. Skywatcher Christopher Go of the Philippines also caught the event on video. <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter-fireball-new-collision-100604.html">Full Story</a>. (Image credit: Anthony Wesley.)

A huge fireball has been spotted on Jupiter in yet

The new Jupiter crash occurred on June 3 at 20:31 UT (4:31

Wesley's photos show the Jupiter fireball blazing in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet. So far, no visible scar in the clouds has

Wesley described the event as a "large fireball" on his website, where he posted the photos taken from Broken Hill, Australia.

This new impact on Jupiter comes less than a year after a

It was Wesley, too, who first spotted the July 2009

Astronomers initially suspected a comet in last year's

And Jupiter has been smacked before.

In 1994, the comet

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