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style="border-bottom:#aaa solid 1px"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg/300px-Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg/450px-Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Hs-2009-23-crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="494" data-file-height="368" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble</a> image of the scar taken on July 23 showing a blemish of about 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) long<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hubblesite_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hubblesite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;">July 19, 2009<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2009-07-19</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data location" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg/220px-371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg/330px-371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg/440px-371566main_Hompage_Jupiter_Impact_v2_226x170.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>A picture of the 2009 impact mark captured by <a href="/wiki/NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility" title="NASA Infrared Telescope Facility">NASA Infrared Telescope Facility</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mauna_Kea" title="Mauna Kea">Mauna Kea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG/220px-The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG/330px-The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG/440px-The_Keck_Subaru_and_Infrared_obervatories.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="926" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/W._M._Keck_Observatory" title="W. M. Keck Observatory">Keck Observatory</a> (the two in the middle) and <a href="/wiki/NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility" title="NASA Infrared Telescope Facility">NASA Infrared Telescope Facility</a> (right) at <a href="/wiki/Mauna_Kea_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauna Kea Observatory">Mauna Kea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>2009 Jupiter impact event</b>, occasionally referred to as the <b>Wesley impact</b>, was a July 2009 <a href="/wiki/Impact_event" title="Impact event">impact event</a> on <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a> that caused a black spot in the planet's atmosphere. The impact area covered 190 million square kilometers, similar in area to the planet's <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter#Oval_BA" title="Atmosphere of Jupiter">Little Red Spot</a> and approximately the size of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-berkeleypr_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-berkeleypr-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The impactor is estimated to have been about 200 to 500 meters in diameter.<sup id="cite_ref-PR2011_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PR2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (For comparison, the one for the <a href="/wiki/Tunguska_event" title="Tunguska event">Tunguska event</a> was estimated to be in the 60–190 meters range.) </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery">Discovery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2009_Jupiter_impact_event&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Discovery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Amateur_astronomy" title="Amateur astronomy">Amateur astronomer</a> <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Wesley" title="Anthony Wesley">Anthony Wesley</a> discovered the impact at approximately 13:30 <a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a> on 19 July 2009 (exactly 15 years after the Jupiter impacts of <a href="/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9" title="Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9">comet Shoemaker–Levy 9</a>, or SL9). He was at his home <a href="/wiki/Observatory" title="Observatory">observatory</a> just outside <a href="/wiki/Murrumbateman,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Murrumbateman, New South Wales">Murrumbateman</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, using stacked images on a 14.5-inch (36.8 cm) diameter <a href="/wiki/Reflecting_telescope" title="Reflecting telescope">reflecting telescope</a> equipped with a low light machine vision video camera attached to the telescope.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wesley stated that: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When first seen close to the limb (and in poor conditions) it was only a vaguely dark spot, I [thought] likely to be just a normal dark polar storm. However as it rotated further into view, and the conditions improved I suddenly realised that it wasn't just dark, it was <i>black</i> in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Wesley sent an e-mail to others including the <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> <a href="/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a> reporting his observations.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Findings">Findings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2009_Jupiter_impact_event&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Findings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Kalas" title="Paul Kalas">Paul Kalas</a> and collaborators confirmed the sighting. They had time on the <a href="/wiki/W._M._Keck_Observatory" title="W. M. Keck Observatory">Keck II</a> telescope in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, and had been planning to observe <a href="/wiki/Fomalhaut_b" title="Fomalhaut b">Fomalhaut b</a>, but they spent some of their time looking at the Jupiter impact.<sup id="cite_ref-keckpr_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keckpr-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Infrared observation by Keck and the <a href="/wiki/NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility" title="NASA Infrared Telescope Facility">NASA Infrared Telescope Facility</a> (IRTF)<sup id="cite_ref-berkeleypr_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-berkeleypr-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at Mauna Kea showed a bright spot where the impact took place, indicating the impact warmed a 190 million square km area of the lower atmosphere at 305° west, 57° south near Jupiter's south pole.<sup id="cite_ref-berkeleypr_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-berkeleypr-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The spot's prominence indicated that it was composed of high-altitude aerosols similar to those seen during the SL9 impact.<sup id="cite_ref-keckpr_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keckpr-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using <a href="/wiki/Near-infrared#Different_regions_in_the_infrared" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-infrared">near-infrared</a> wavelengths and the IRTF, Glenn Orton and his team detected bright upwelling particles in the planet's upper atmosphere and using mid-infrared wavelengths, found possible extra emission of <a href="/wiki/Ammonia" title="Ammonia">ammonia</a> gas.<sup id="cite_ref-Martinez_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Martinez-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The force of the explosion on Jupiter was thousands of times more powerful than the suspected comet or asteroid that <a href="/wiki/Tunguska_event" title="Tunguska event">exploded over the Tunguska</a> River Valley in Siberia in June 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-hubblesite_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hubblesite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (This would be approximately 12,500–13,000 megatons of TNT, over a million times more powerful than <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">the bomb dropped on Hiroshima</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Impactor">Impactor</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2009_Jupiter_impact_event&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Impactor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The object that hit Jupiter was not identified before Wesley discovered the impact. A 2003 paper estimated comets with a diameter larger than 1.5 kilometers impact Jupiter about every 90 to 500 years,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while a 1997 survey suggested that the astronomer <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini" title="Giovanni Domenico Cassini">Cassini</a> may have recorded an impact in 1690.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Given the size of the SL9 impactors,<sup id="cite_ref-sl9-size_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sl9-size-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is likely that this object was less than one kilometer in diameter.<sup id="cite_ref-hubblesite_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hubblesite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gemini_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gemini-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finding water at the site would indicate that the impactor was a comet,<sup id="cite_ref-perlman_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-perlman-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as opposed to an asteroid or a very small, icy moon.<sup id="cite_ref-Grossman_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grossman-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At first it was believed that the object was more likely to be a comet since comets generally have more planet-crossing orbits.<sup id="cite_ref-Hergenrother_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hergenrother-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the distance of Jupiter (5.2 AU) most small comets are not close enough to the Sun to be very <a href="/wiki/Coma_(cometary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coma (cometary)">active</a>, and so would be hard to detect.<sup id="cite_ref-Hergenrother_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hergenrother-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Small kilometer-sized asteroids would also be hard to detect, however, and recent work by Orton et al. and Hammel et al. has strongly suggested the impactor was an asteroid, as it left only one impact site, did not reduce Jovian decametric radiation emission by contributing significant dust to the Jovian magnetosphere, and produced high altitude dusty debris full of silica, very different than what was produced by SL9.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As of 2012, the impactor is believed to have been an asteroid with a diameter of about 200 to 500 meters.<sup id="cite_ref-PR2011_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PR2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Visibility">Visibility</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2009_Jupiter_impact_event&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Visibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Assuming it was an inactive comet (or asteroid) about 1 km in diameter, this object would have been no brighter than about <a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">apparent magnitude</a> 25.<sup id="cite_ref-Hergenrother_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hergenrother-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Jupiter shines about 130 <a href="/wiki/1000000000_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="1000000000 (number)">billion</a> times brighter than a 25th magnitude object.)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most asteroid surveys that use a wide field of view do not see fainter than about magnitude 22 (which is 16x brighter than magnitude 25).<sup id="cite_ref-Hergenrother_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hergenrother-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even detecting satellites less than 10 km in diameter orbiting Jupiter is difficult and requires some of the best telescopes in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-Sheppard2003_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sheppard2003-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is only since 1999 with the discovery of <a href="/wiki/Callirrhoe_(moon)" title="Callirrhoe (moon)">Callirrhoe</a> that astronomers have been able to discover many of <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter#List" title="Moons of Jupiter">Jupiter's smallest moons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-moon1999_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-moon1999-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2009_Jupiter_impact_event&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impact_events_on_Jupiter" title="Impact events on Jupiter">Impact events on Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_events" title="List of Jupiter events">List of Jupiter events</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2009_Jupiter_impact_event&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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(2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1088%2F2041-8205%2F715%2F2%2FL150">"Jupiter After the 2009 Impact:hubble Space Telescopeimaging of the Impact-Generated Debris and Its Temporal Evolution"</a>. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. <b>715</b> (2): L150. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...715L.150H">2010ApJ...715L.150H</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1088%2F2041-8205%2F715%2F2%2FL150">10.1088/2041-8205/715/2/L150</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Astrophysical+Journal&rft.atitle=Jupiter+After+the+2009+Impact%3Ahubble+Space+Telescopeimaging+of+the+Impact-Generated+Debris+and+Its+Temporal+Evolution&rft.volume=715&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=L150&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1088%2F2041-8205%2F715%2F2%2FL150&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2010ApJ...715L.150H&rft.aulast=Hammel&rft.aufirst=H.+B.&rft.au=Wong%2C+M.+H.&rft.au=Clarke%2C+J.+T.&rft.au=De+Pater%2C+I.&rft.au=Fletcher%2C+L.+N.&rft.au=Hueso%2C+R.&rft.au=Noll%2C+K.&rft.au=Orton%2C+G.+S.&rft.au=P%C3%A9rez-Hoyos%2C+S.&rft.au=S%C3%A1nchez-Lavega%2C+A.&rft.au=Simon-Miller%2C+A.+A.&rft.au=Yanamandra-Fisher%2C+P.+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1088%252F2041-8205%252F715%252F2%252FL150&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A2009+Jupiter+impact+event" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSánchez-LavegaWesleyOrtonHueso2010" class="citation journal cs1">Sánchez-Lavega, A.; Wesley, A.; Orton, G.; Hueso, R.; Perez-Hoyos, S.; Fletcher, L. N.; Yanamandra-Fisher, P.; Legarreta, J.; De Pater, I.; Hammel, H.; Simon-Miller, A.; Gomez-Forrellad, J. M.; Ortiz, J. L.; García-Melendo, E.; Puetter, R. C.; Chodas, P. (2010). 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navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1490 <a href="/wiki/Qingyang_event" title="Qingyang event">Qingyang</a></li> <li>1783 <a href="/wiki/1783_Great_Meteor" title="1783 Great Meteor">Great Meteor</a></li> <li>1860 <a href="/wiki/1860_Great_Meteor" title="1860 Great Meteor">Great Meteor</a></li> <li>1908 <a href="/wiki/Tunguska_event" title="Tunguska event">Tunguska</a></li> <li>1913 <a href="/wiki/1913_Great_Meteor_Procession" title="1913 Great Meteor Procession">Great Meteor Procession</a></li> <li>1930 <a href="/wiki/1930_Curu%C3%A7%C3%A1_River_event" title="1930 Curuçá River event">Curuçá River</a></li> <li>1938 <a href="/wiki/Chicora_meteor" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicora meteor">Chicora meteor</a></li> <li>1947 <a href="/wiki/Sikhote-Alin_meteorite" title="Sikhote-Alin meteorite">Sikhote-Alin meteor</a></li> <li>1969 <a href="/wiki/Murchison_meteorite" title="Murchison meteorite">Murchison meteor</a></li> <li>1972 <a 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class="nowrap">2023 CX<sub>1</sub></span> impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_BX1" title="2024 BX1"><span class="nowrap">2024 BX<sub>1</sub></span> impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_RW1" title="2024 RW1"><span class="nowrap">2024 RW<sub>1</sub></span> impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_UQ" title="2024 UQ">2024 UQ impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_XA1" title="2024 XA1"><span class="nowrap">2024 XA<sub>1</sub></span> impact</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">On <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Impact_events_on_Mars" title="Impact events on Mars">Impact events on Mars</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">On <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impact_events_on_Jupiter" title="Impact events on Jupiter">Impact events on Jupiter</a></li> <li>1994 <a href="/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9" title="Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9">Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9</a></li> <li>2009 <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Jupiter impact</a></li> <li>2010 <a href="/wiki/2010_Jupiter_impact_event" title="2010 Jupiter impact event">Jupiter impact</a></li> <li>2016 <a href="/wiki/2016_Jupiter_impact_event" title="2016 Jupiter impact event">Jupiter impact</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_predicted_asteroid_impacts_on_Earth" title="List of predicted asteroid impacts on Earth">Predicted asteroid impacts on Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approaches_to_Earth" title="List of asteroid close approaches to Earth">Asteroid close approaches to Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_comets" title="Lists of comets">Comets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_bolides" title="List of bolides">Bolides</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meteor_air_burst" title="Meteor air burst">Meteor air bursts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_meteorite_falls" class="mw-redirect" title="List of meteorite falls">Meteorite falls</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planets" title="List of minor planets">Minor planets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Earth-crossing_asteroids" title="List of Earth-crossing asteroids">Asteroids crossing Earth's orbit</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_impact_prediction" title="Asteroid impact prediction">Asteroid impact prediction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance" title="Asteroid impact avoidance">Asteroid impact avoidance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolide" title="Bolide">Bolide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth-grazing_fireball" title="Earth-grazing fireball">Earth-grazing fireball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteor_procession" title="Meteor procession">Meteor procession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteor_shower" title="Meteor shower">Meteor shower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteorite" title="Meteorite">Meteorite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteoroid" title="Meteoroid">Meteoroid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">Near-Earth object</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potentially_hazardous_object" title="Potentially hazardous object">Potentially hazardous object</a></li></ul> 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title="Thebe (moon)">Thebe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Galilean_moons" title="Galilean moons">Galilean</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" title="Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callisto_(moon)" title="Callisto (moon)">Callisto</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Irregular</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Himalia_group" title="Himalia group">Himalia group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themisto_(moon)" title="Themisto (moon)">Themisto</a></li> <li><a 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