Actually, there is a UT article that says:

By using the full set of Gemini images taken over a range of wavelengths from 8 to 18 microns, the team will be able to disentangle the effects of temperature, ammonia abundance, and upper atmospheric aerosol content. Comparing these Gemini observations with past and future images will permit the team to study the evolution of features as Jupiter’s strong winds disperse them.

this proves Jupiter, like Pluto, is not actually a planet. That’s because it hasn’t “cleared its orbit” of debris yet.

So did that person have evidence of that the remaining material masses more than Jupiter itself, thus failing the clearance condition?

@ dhtroy:

I’m curious, just how much science do we collect and learn from impacts like this one on Jupiter? I realize we have to learn something, I’m just wondering, “what”, exactly.

I’m not an expert, but I assume it would be possible to glean information about density and composition of lower atmospheric layers, see Chris A. description of “producing a plume shooting back the way the impactor came.” (# 71.)

Much obliged. Look at that, you *do* learn something new every day.

The following website has a pretty good summary of what we can see from down in the Southern Hemisphere…
home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm

But seriously, kind of, with its huge mass big Jupe is a vacuum cleaner of the solar system. It sucks. I mean that in a good way. What is remarkable is that we haven’t seen MORE impacts than this and S-L9. We probably will now with people on the alert.