Fragment E Impact on Jupiter
From the newsgroup sci.astro:
Subj: Impact e seen at 10 microns with CAMIRAS at NOT
Impact E has been seen at 10 microns with the CAMIRAS camera mounted on the
Nordic Optical telescope at about 15h17min . UT. It was fainter than impact A
seen yesterday.
French-Swedish-Spanish team
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Calar Alto reports the detection of the fireball from fragment E with
the 3.5m telescope at the 2.3 um band. The event was first noted at
15:17:30 and rapidly increased to more than 30 times the brightness of
Europa. By 15:23, the fireball has dimmed to less than Europa's
brightness.
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Subj: Fragment E - No Optical Flashes
Fragment E (predicted at 1505 UT)
CCD imaging at Perth Observatory July 17 1450-1530 UT.
Broad CH4 filter at 893nm, 2-sec exposures of limb of
Jupiter (rest of Jupiter occulted by mask) with 60-70%
duty cycle. No flashes or plumes were obvious in the
raw data. Flashes greater than 25% of a square arcsec
of Jupiter should have been seen in the raw data.
Mike A'Hearn