From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 24, 2009 4:24:02 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: impact on Jupiter...

Hi Terrence;

On 24-Jul-09, at 3:49 PM, Terrence Redding wrote:

Ah, else where I learned that the object that struck Jupiter was to small to be imaged from earth.

Can you quote the source for this?

I've never heard anyone say what the impactor was yet or what size it was, except this guess by Nasa as to it being "several football fields in size":

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10295368-239.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090724-hubble-jupiter-spot.html

Shoemaker Levy 9 was estimated to be 1 to 3 kilometers in size for the "core" fragments..

http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~astro/sl9/cometfaq2.html

comparable images are at:

ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/astro/SL9/images/recent/ALL/LPM_FGH.gif

http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~astro/sl9/cometfaq2.html

Not trying to be argumentative, but I still find it funny that it was an amateur found it and not any government funded groups with vastly greater resources.

Have a great weekend..

Milton J. Aupperle