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Jupiter impact (March 17th) corroborated by an Irish amateur?

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    Popoutman
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    Found the answer. John McKeon
    His video is here: (>2 million views as well)


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    Wibbs
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    Wow. The energy release involved must have been unreal. We're so lucky to have Jupiter as the solar systems hoover. If that had hit us, game over I'd imagine.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    _Tombstone_
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    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057405049/1/#post99221124


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    mickmackey1
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Wow. The energy release involved must have been unreal. We're so lucky to have Jupiter as the solar systems hoover. If that had hit us, game over I'd imagine.
    Pretty sure I saw somewhere that Jupiter directs a lot of material towards the inner solar system (i.e. towards us), as well as hoovering up other stuff. So it's a double-edged sword.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    If it hadn't been for all-eggs-in-one-basket Shuttle program then Galileo might have had a ring side view of Shoemaker-Levy 9.

    And now Juno missed this by a few months. I don't know how yet but I'll blame the shuttle program again.


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