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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/science/space/25hubble.html et al
Discovered late Sunday night July the 19th by an Australian amateur astronomer, the black eye left in Jupiter's atmosphere is estimated to be as large as the Pacific Ocean. Hubble's photos released to the media are creating quite a stir among astronomers world wide. This was another object no one saw coming, and all anyone can do is guess what it may have been.
No one claims that the planet surface was struck. It is believed that the comet, asteroid, or whatever it was exploded in the atmosphere before it could impact the surface.
The guesstimate is an object the size of a mountain on earth plowed through the murky atmosphere of the gas giant leaving this atmospheric disturbance in its wake. An atmospheric disturbance the size of the Pacific Ocean would certainly be some disturbance! Many try to speculate what would have happened if it had hit earth. Others are thankful for Jupiter's gravitational pull from its great mass (second only to the Sun in the Solar system). Jupiter attracts or deflect a large amount of matter that would otherwise enter the inner portion of the Solar system, but it cannot stop everything from entering.
I am thankful that the Creator of heaven and earth designed it this way. While Jupiter is no guarantee that something might slip by and impact the earth, we have a design that God set in motion. He revealed to the apostle John that the earth will go through some very hard times astronomically speaking, near the end of time.
I am also reminded that there will be signs in the heavens before the return of Jesus Christ. That time is constantly coming closer as the years go by. One day He will arrive. I sincerely hope everyone who reads this will be ready, should that day be within our lifetimes.
Discovered late Sunday night July the 19th by an Australian amateur astronomer, the black eye left in Jupiter's atmosphere is estimated to be as large as the Pacific Ocean. Hubble's photos released to the media are creating quite a stir among astronomers world wide. This was another object no one saw coming, and all anyone can do is guess what it may have been.
No one claims that the planet surface was struck. It is believed that the comet, asteroid, or whatever it was exploded in the atmosphere before it could impact the surface.
The guesstimate is an object the size of a mountain on earth plowed through the murky atmosphere of the gas giant leaving this atmospheric disturbance in its wake. An atmospheric disturbance the size of the Pacific Ocean would certainly be some disturbance! Many try to speculate what would have happened if it had hit earth. Others are thankful for Jupiter's gravitational pull from its great mass (second only to the Sun in the Solar system). Jupiter attracts or deflect a large amount of matter that would otherwise enter the inner portion of the Solar system, but it cannot stop everything from entering.
I am thankful that the Creator of heaven and earth designed it this way. While Jupiter is no guarantee that something might slip by and impact the earth, we have a design that God set in motion. He revealed to the apostle John that the earth will go through some very hard times astronomically speaking, near the end of time.
I am also reminded that there will be signs in the heavens before the return of Jesus Christ. That time is constantly coming closer as the years go by. One day He will arrive. I sincerely hope everyone who reads this will be ready, should that day be within our lifetimes.
Good points, especially the ending. I have a writer friend who published a book about the signs in the heavens during end times. Interesting subject.
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