2009 Jupiter impact event

2009 Jupiter impact event
	Hubble image of the scar taken on July 23 showing a blemish of about 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) long
Date	July 19, 2009
Location	Jupiter

The 2009 Jupiter impact event, occasionally referred to as the Wesley impact, was a July 2009 impact event on Jupiter 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 Little Red Spot and approximately the size of the Pacific Ocean.^[3] The impactor is estimated to have been about 200 to 500 meters in diameter.^[4] (For comparison, the one for the Tunguska event was estimated to be in the 60–190 meters range.)

^ Dennis Overbye (2009-07-24). "Hubble Takes Snapshot of Jupiter's 'Black Eye'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
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^ Jupiter pummeled, leaving bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. University of California, Berkeley press release, July 21, 2009.
^ Cite error: The named reference PR2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Dennis Overbye (2009-07-24). "Hubble Takes Snapshot of Jupiter's 'Black Eye'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-25.

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[berkeleypr-3] Jupiter pummeled, leaving bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. University of California, Berkeley press release, July 21, 2009.

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Hubble image of the scar taken on July 23 showing a blemish of about 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) long^[1]^[2]
Date	July 19, 2009 (2009-07-19)
Location	Jupiter