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Old July 21st 09, 06:54 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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Default Giant impact on Jupiter

Something really large walloped Jupiter's south polar region in the past
few days: http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10291824-239.html

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Old July 21st 09, 11:13 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
BradGuth
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Default Giant impact on Jupiter

On Jul 21, 2:48*pm, Van Chocstraw
wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
Something really large walloped Jupiter's south polar region in the past
few days:http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10291824-239.html


Pat


Earth is next.


Perhaps if we're lucky it'll wallop our physically dark Selene/moon,
with a glancing blow off the farside, so that we'll get little if any
of those pesky secondary shards.

~ BG
 




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