The comet collision with Jupiter: III. The largest impact complex at high resolution
Abstract
Comet fragments D, G, R, and S all impacted on Jupiter within an 180 range of longitude, and produced a single great dark complex. Using high-resolution maps derived from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based images, we compile a continuous record of this complex. Many dark spots and streamers developed within it. They did not follow the normal east-west wind pattern, but showed evidence for both prograding and anticyclonic motions. There was also evidence that a nearby cyclonic white oval `erupted' within two days after impact G.
- Publication:
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Journal of the British Astronomical Association
- Pub Date:
- June 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996JBAA..106..151R
- Keywords:
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- JUPITER;
- SL9 IMPACT