Anthony Wesley Jupiter Slamed By Massive Object Amature Astronomer Discovery

Impact Jupiter...Massive object slams into Jupiter a few days ago, discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley.Commet or asteroid smashes into Jupiter a few days ago, discovered by Anthony Wesley in Australia.An amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley, has discovered a rare space phenomenon of a massive object about the size of earth smashing into the surface of our celestial planetary neighbor Jupiter from his backyard in the Australian capital of Canberra.44-year-old computer programmer Anthony Wesley was stunned to have discovered a massive black hole on the surface of Jupiter using a 14.5 inch telescope.Within hours of Anthony Wesley's amazing discovery of the impact of the massive object into Jupiter, science and space blogs, message boards and news web sites were buzzing with the amazing discovery.Not long after the discovery by Anthony Wesley, astronomers from NASA via a telescope at Mauna Kea in Hawaii were confirming that indeed Jupiter had just been hit by a massive object.The amazing discovery by Anthony Wesley is only the second time evidence of such a collision with Jupiter has been documented.The other time was back in July 1994 when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comets collided with Jupiter. The timing of the celestial collision with the massive planet came almost 15 years to the day one of the events of 1994 happened.Picture: Australian Anthony Wesley"We are extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," a spokesperson from NASA said.Its not known the exact nature of the massive object that has slammed into Jupiter, but its almost certainly a massive asteroid or comet.The suddenly world famous Anthony Wesley told his story to Australian media: "By two o'clock I'd come back up to the house and was sending alerts to all the people I could think of that should be looking at this and especially the professional astronomers with specialised instrument for measuring this," Anthony Wesley said."The sooner they could see this the more interesting and more useful science they can get from it."Wesley said it took him 30 minutes to realise a dark spot rotating in Jupiter's clouds on July 19 was actually the first impact seen by astronomers since a comet collided with the giant planet in July 1994."I thought (it) likely to be just a normal dark polar storm," Anthony Wesley said earlier on his website www.acquerra.com.au/astro."However as it rotated further into view and the conditions improved I suddenly realised that it wasn't just dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot," Anthony Wesley addedThe race is now on to find any evidence that might show the exact moment of impact, with astronomers world wide scrambling to see if anyone had a telescope pointed at Jupiter at the time of impact.It was also noted by online blogs that if the object had hit the Earth, the planet would have been pulverised.The Anthony Wesley discovery of the Jupiter impact is also a reminder the role the massive planet plays at cleaning up massive object that might otherwise find their way to our Earth, threatening global catastrophe.

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