Thu Jul 21 22:57:06 1994


No impact site U obviously visible?


Having continued to follow impact sites K, L, and G across the disk of Jupiter at July 22.09 UT, we note a pattern with these large impact sites in which a prominent, dark, seemingly-circular spot is preceeded by an elongated, diffuse area that swings southward into an obvious shield. Our seeing has detiorated in the past hour as Jupiter reaches greater air masses, but we wonder if our earlier remarks about the possible sighting of impact site "U" were in fact concerning only this same pattern for site K. Confirmation of the existence (or absence) of a new impact site following the K impact point needs to be made. John Rogers e-mails us to say that site K "already had a double dark spot on July 20 (19-20h UT); your description sounds much the same, so it was probably not showing a U impact scar."

  -- D. Green and S. O'Meara  (Harvard College Observatory)




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