SL9 Jupiter Impact Observations
Basic Observational Facts:
6.5 days of SL9 fragment impacts starting July 16, 1994.
Jupiter rotates ~1 degree every 100 sec, a rotation period of about 10 hours.
The impact sites rotated into the Earth's view within about 10 minutes (and the latter fragments within about a minute).
Spacecraft Observations of the Impacts:
- * Galileo
- Hubble Space Telescope
- * Voyager 2
- Ulysses
- International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
- Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
- Roentgensatellit (ROSAT)
- NASA Sounding Rocket
Ground Based Observations of the Impacts (not limited to):
- Caltech
- Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
- Comet Impact Network Experiment
- Deep Space Network
- European Southern Observatory
- Griffith Observatory
- Infrared Telescope Facility
- IUE Observatory
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Keck Telescope
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- Kuiper Airborne Observatory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Lick and Leuschner Observatories
- Lowell Observatory
- McDonald Observatory
- Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
- Mt. Wilson Observatory
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Very Large Array (VLA)
- National Solar Observatory
- Owens Valley Radio Observatory
- Project BAMBI Amateur Radio Telescope
- South Africa Astronomical Observatory
- Space Telescope Science Institude (STScI)
- University of Hawaii
- University of Oregon
- University of Rochester
- Whately Observatory
From Voyager 2, Jupiter was only 2 pixels large. No detection from the PRS or UVS instruments.
Galileo's Vantage (240 million km from Jupiter):
From Galileo, Jupiter was 60 pixels wide.
Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Vantage (Earth orbit):
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