[meteorite-list] Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 16 Jun 2010 21:07:48 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000000F00004BED_at_paulinet.de>

Hmmm?!? So, what pelted Jupiter's atmosphere without leaving a cloud of debris?
Something "rock solid" ... so solid (a high-nickel ataxite?) that it did not dis-
integrate like IIAB Sikhote-Alin did (thinking of Medvedev's famous painting!)?
Did it plunge through Jupiter's very dense (!) atmosphere (almost) vertically
without disintegrating?

Mulling here in Germany,

Bernd
Received on Wed 16 Jun 2010 05:07:48 PM PDT