I just thought of that movie Armageddon just now. I'm sure if something like that threatens earth the Japanese will have a giant robot ready to go into space and push it out of the way while Congress is still voting on the color of a very big rocket to shoot at it.

Tom's, one place, all the news.
Awesome to know though
I usually don't check astronomic sites but some news is always good.

Cheers to Jupiter. Nice work.

Megamanx00 I don't think Japan has enough room to build the size of robot needed, most likely they'd design it, and the Chinese would build it, and Australia would provide the majority of the resources required.

Way to take the hit for the team, Nice work Jupiter! better you then us right?

Good boy! AAA++++

So when they say that there are potentially thousands of planets with the right conditions for life do they take into account the fact that Earth is extremely lucky to have shields like Jupiter taking hits for us.

Jupiter, you're my hero. You make all the heroes in the world look weak.

oh,so is that what my dad was talking about *last week*...

Anyone else find it funny an amateur astronomer had to call and tell NASA this?

"Jupiter, you're my hero. You make all the heroes in the world look weak."

I wanted to say some sort of cheesy Chuck Noris joke but I could not think of any that where funny...

Anyway its cool I just wish there was a youtube video of it happening

No not really. Volunteer storm spotters help give the National Weather Service information on conditions to get a more accurate picture of whats going on in the sky.

No because nasa is focused more on other parts of space rather then looking at a planet they already did in the past. Im sure they would of picked up on it eventually

even if Jupiter wasn't there chuck Norris would've fucked that thing up. he can never die.

(Whoops, quoted the wrong person before)

crap, there goes my first major land investment... who wants to live in a crater? now my non existent great great great great grandchildren are going to be poor.

An edit or delete comment feature would be really useful (last post, promise)

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NASA needs to put Chuck Norris in a space suit to protect us. Then next time an asteroid comes near Earth he can round-house-kick that sucker out of the way.

silly gravitational preturbations in the kupier belt/ oort cloud. it's all jupiter's fault to being with, the least it can do is take the hits.

Actually, the comet goes to earth but Chuck Norris roundhouse-kick that comet into the Jupiter ^__^

Chuck Norris does not need a space suit. He just goes as he is... ^__^

Shame it wasn't the next planet over, the title would have been funnier

"Big hole in Uranus!"

since when is Uranus the next planet over? did someone fail 2nd grade science?

Did someone fail 1st grade humour? That's supposed to be a joke you f@king 'tard. Only an American would have so little grasp of irony, satire or basic sentence structure, such as capital letters and such... maybe someone failed 1st grade English too?

if you are making the joke, then why not at least be factual about it. the joke doesn't get any less funny by saying "shame it wasn't a
*few* planets over..." only a European would overlook such basic facts when trying to make a corny joke.

Fight Fight Fight!!!!

It's people like you that heckle comedians on stage, they aren't factual either but they are funny, even if the jokes are corny. Try doing that to Chris Rock and you would spend the next month trying to pull his Adidas out your ass. If I wanted to be totally factual I could but it would detract from the content of the joke.

And you still can't arrange a sentence properly, go back to school and learn how the English language works.

Capital letter at the beginning, punctuation, grammar, etc. Normally I ignore the laxness of comments as people are just lazy and so am I sometimes, but when you start pushing the "you aren't educated" card and can't get beyond kindergarten level English it does make you look a little hypocritical.

Stick that in Uranus.

good show mate. this is a casual internet message board, not the summation of my undergrad research. busting on Americans but then use an American comedian as an example? not very original there mate. never claimed to be a master of the english language, just an astrophysicst with attention to scientific detail. and normally i do use the proper sentence structure, i'm doing this now just to get under your skin, which apparently has worked! yay!

4 degrees from Penn State and i can still bother a limely git. cheers from across the pond,

your revolutionary brother

Good to see that you try so hard to impress us all, I would have used an English comedian but when it comes to anything outside the borders of your own country it simply doesn't exist, right?
By the way, a football is round and you don't use your hands.

On this rare occasion I will agree with you and say yes, it does bother me when Americans have such a cavalier attitude to the English language, such as Drive Thru, Color, Humor. This is not "evolution of language" like when new words are created, it is downright laziness.