Collision on Saturn?

[Paul G. Abel]

Hi all,

I’m currently travelling and came across this new scientist article suggesting a possible asteroid strike on Saturn. Thought it might be worth posting in case anyone was observing or imagining the planet recently.

Link Here

Cheers,
-Paul

[David Arditti]

The article has now been updated to say that additional data did not show the flash, so it seems there was no strike.

Worth keeping an eye out for this possibility though.

[John Rogers]

Marc Delcroix, co-leader of the DeTeCt project, alerted the community to a possible impact flash on Saturn picked up by the DeTeCt software in an amateur’s video, in case anyone had another video at the same time to check. He noted that it did not look very likely and has now reported that it was not a real impact.

[Author]

Posts