The 2009 Jupiter impact event, occasionally referred to as the Wesley impact, was a July 2009 impact on ..... "Photo of Anthony Wesley and his telescope".
But the man who first filmed a similar impact in 2010, Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley, says the impact body was probably just "10m or 20m" - around the same size as the Chelyabinsk meteor which caused havoc over Russia in 2013.
In 2009, a significant impact was witnessed by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley in Australia that, after some detective work, was found to be an asteroid impact. Then in 2010, Wesley was again looking in the right place at the right time to spot another large impact and confirmed by Philippines-bas
Date: Mar 29, 2016
Source: Google
Jupiter Just Got Hit by a Comet or Asteroid ... Again (Video)
On July 19, 2009, Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley noticed a dark spot near Jupiter's southern pole: the telltale bruise from an impact, likely from a rogue asteroid about 1,600 feet (500 meters) wide. It was roughly the size of the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship.
Date: Mar 29, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Bizarre Martian Plumes Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
Like many full-time astronomers, he knows that skilled amateurs often pick up celestial phenomena the pros might miss. Amateurs have been the first to see some supernovae and comets, for example, and in 2009, an Australian amateur named Anthony Wesley watched as a comet smacked into Jupiter.