Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 21:09:51 EST


L impact at LNA-Brazil


We communicate the non-detection of flash from fragment L on Europa from Pico-dos-Dias Observatory. Europa was monitored with a rapid photometer binned on 0.1s. in the V-filter from 21:32:54UT until 22:27:51UT. Ath` 22:23:45UT was noticed an extremely bright plume on the limb of Jupiter. It increased in intensity from 22:23:45UT until 22:27:51UT when it began to fade away. In raw data appeared a very strange, unexplained and symmetrical decrease in intensity around 22:14:06UT by nearly 20% of mean intensity. Furthermore we report the non-detection of the B and F impact flashes as well.

CCD spectroscopy and direct imaging of plume were also performed. Data are being analysed.


  D. Lazzaro, J.L. Kohl-Moreira, D. Foryta, P.D. Singh, 
  R.D.D. Costa, A.A. de Almeida, A.M. Magalhaes,
  V.Ellinger-Margoniner.



Last Modifikation: 94/07/19 14:00 MET
Curator: C. Kronberg (smil@agleia.de)