In recorded history, the planet Jupiter has experienced impact events and has been probed and photographed by several spacecraft.
Event | Date (UTC) | Rough original size (meters) |
Latitude (°) | Longitude (°) | Discoverer(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 2023 event[2] | 2023/08/28 16:45 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Oct 2021 event[3][4] | 2021/10/15 13:24 | ? | +20 | 201 | Ko Arimatsu |
Sep 2021 event[5] | 2021/09/13 22:39:30 | ? | −5.5 | 105.7 | José Luis Pereira |
Apr 2020 event[6] | 2020/04/10 | 1-4 | ? | ? | Juno team |
Aug 2019 event[7] | 2019/08/07 04:07 | ? | ? | ? | Ethan Chappel |
May 2017 event[8][9] | 2017/05/26 19:25 | 12 | +51 | ? | Sauveur Pedranghelu |
Mar 2016 event[8][10] | 2016/03/17 00:18:33 | 15 | ? | ? | John McKeon |
Sep 2012 event[8][11] | 2012/09/10 11:35:00 | 30 | +2 | 345 | Dan Peterson |
Aug 2010 event[8][12] | 2010/08/20 18:22:12 | 10 | +11 | ? | Masayuki Tachikawa Aoki Kazuo |
Jun 2010 Jupiter impact event[13] | 2010/06/03 20:31:20 | 13 | ? | ? | Anthony Wesley |
Jul 2009 Jupiter impact event[14] | 2009/07/19 13:30 | 200–500 | −57 | 55 | Anthony Wesley |
Jul 1994 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9[15] | 1994/07/16 20:13:16 – 1994/07/22 08:06:16 |
1800 | varies for each fragment | varies for each fragment | Carolyn Shoemaker Eugene Shoemaker David Levy |
Mar 1979 event[16] | 1979/03/05 17:45:24 | ? | ? | ? | Voyager team |