Saturday, July 25, 2009

More On What Hit Jupiter

The newly-refurbished Hubble space telescope peered into our solar system this week to try to find out what the heck slammed into Jupiter last weekend. It turns out the object that struck Jupiter was only a couple of hundred meters across - far smaller than the Earth-sized object first reported. Still, whatever it was, it left a scar around 10-thousand kilometers long. And no one spotted it.