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It is big isn't it?
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It is big isn't it?
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Of course it could be either 2011 HD63 OR 2008 EK1
ArcticBlue
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Ooh crikey its huge
The Wizard
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Which direction is it heading? Looking out my easterly facing window i can't see owt apart from what appears to be a few stars 
Doc Lynam
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Have a look at Star chart phone app its amazing
tezz79
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Hi those are not craters you can see on Jupiter as it's a huge gas ball, they are actually huge storms that have been raging for thousands or millions of years, should be able to make out the dark bands with a telescope too
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so what about all ther big asteroids that have collided with this planet
they must leave some kind of remnants
bn1&bn3 Albion
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Bastard... I thought this was posted tonight and walked outside to have a look
Im using an app called Distant Suns....it's great. Hold you phone up at the direction of the star/planet and it will tell you what should be up there.
Doc Lynam
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I think you saw the International Space Station, it was very bright last week and rose up from the West horizon. Continuing across the sky.
Yoda
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Has anyone managed to sopt the supernova yet?
tezz79
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so what about all ther big asteroids that have collided with this planet
It's a gas giant mate, there wouldn't be any collision (as such) but I'm guessing the smaller particles could be caught in it's orbit & are possibly responsible for the dark reddish bands but there are no craters as there would be no impact of the kind where an asteroid hit a giant solid mass to leave one.
Google it, those big dark circles on Jupiter are giant storms & they even move to different parts of the planet & vary from time to time in their power, size & visibility
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tezz79
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Most of the stars you can see are at least 25 million light years away, that means even if you could travel at the speed of light it would still take 25 million years to get there & yes these events have already happened & it's took that long for it to become visible from earth, hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs lol & I am by no means any sort of expert AT ALL (just to be clear)
tezz79
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Sky view is pretty good & if you like to track visible satellites from earth or the space station then go sat watch is excellent !!!
Doc Lynam
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Sky Chart very good
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I use Star Walk just hold it up to the sky and it displays the sky in diffferent modes, it also shows you satalites and the space station, all with accompanying new age music..
Tricky Dicky
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so what about all ther big asteroids that have collided with this planet
Just to confirm what others have said, Jupiter is one of the gas giants. The inner planets, those closer to the sun, i.e. Mercury, Mars, Venus and The Earth are all solid planets (although Venus does have a curtain of nasty gas surrounding it). The outer planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are the "Gas Giants". The laws of physics determine that they have to be. The asteroids/meteorites that crash into Jupiter, e.g. Shoemaker Levy 9 in 1996 (I think), don't leave craters but they do leave scars in the upper parts of the clouds/storms for a while. I think the SL9 scars were visible for several weeks.
Incidentally, the "Great Red Spot" of Jupiter, which is a huge storm that varies in size from time to time, but has lasted for many centuries, is so large in itself that the Earth could fit inside it.