At least two amateur astronomers were aiming their telescopes at Jupiter on March 17 and caught what appears to be an asteroid hitting the planet, causing a bright explosion.
John McKeon was filming Jupiter with his 11-inch telescope in Swords, Ireland, while Gerrit Kernbauer was doing the same with a 8-inch telescope in Mödling, Austria.
“The seeing was not the best, so i hesitated to process the Videos. Nevertheless 10 days later i looked through the Videos and i found this strange light spot that appeared for less than one second on the edge of the planetary disc,” Kernbauer wrote in the description of his video on Youtube.
Jupiter has much stronger gravity than Earth so objects are pulled to it with much greater power.
