 Observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Date | 3 June 2010 |
|---|---|
| Location | Jupiter |
The 2010 Jupiter impact event was a bolide impact event on Jupiter by an object estimated to be about 8–13 metres (26–43 ft) in diameter.[1] The impactor may have been an asteroid, comet, centaur, extinct comet, or temporary satellite capture.
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