Despite what other’s may say about the grammar, you may have a point. The image does not look like other recorded “hits”. Atmospheric distortion may explain some details, and would hate to go into lightning discharges although lightning does happen on Earth around large energy discharges such as volcanoes. Think this does need further review and a continued followup!

I would be really interested in setting it up to produce videos of Astronomical events such as this.

Stuart

Impacts the magnitude of those observed on Jupiter are quite rare on earth; it is a much smaller target, and Jupiter acts like a giant vacuum cleaner and its gravitational field is so strong that it “shepherds” comets from the Oort Cloud away from the inner regions of the Solar System.

Life-threatening impacts only occur every 50-60 million years or so. I would hardly get in a tizzy about such an event happening in the foreseeable future. Lots of things should be of far greater concern to us human beings…

Quote from article

“… happily, on average an impact this large is extremely rare, like once every half million years or so.”

What are you talking about? Counting this one there have been three impacts in the past 16 years or less, On Jupiter. There is a greater liklihood than you state of there being a large impact on Earth. exactly what that is, is Unknown because no body was here in the past 10,000 years ago to take note. I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but you are treating your lay readers like little babies by making estimates of probability about which you nor anyone else has any Certainty. Based on jupiter’s (and Saturn’s) being a big S**t magnet, sucking stuff out of the inner solar system, things bumping around in the dark in the Oort Cloud, Nobody Knows what might happen When. And How in the heck did Pluto get a Moon? What IS in the Oort Cloud, Really? Does Mars have water? Nobody Knows. Get Real.

From Wikipedia:
“From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. ….Observers soon saw a huge dark spot after the first impact. The spot was visible even in very small telescopes, and was about 6,000 km (3,700 mi) (one Earth radius) across.”

also wikipedia:
“On July 19, 2009, a new black spot about the size of Earth was discovered in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere by an amateur astronomer. Thermal infrared analysis showed it was warm and spectroscopic methods detected ammonia. JPL scientists confirmed that another impact event on Jupiter had occurred, probably a small undiscovered comet or other icy body.”

It was a fascinating sight! Had that comet hit the earth, it would have caused immeasurable damage…

Personally, I have no problem with the fact that the B&W video that shows the impact has been colorized with a color image taken before, especially if the processing is clearly explained. The only difference with a real-time color shot is that here, we cannot know the true color of the impact itself.

We certainly know English grammar.