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The Search For Historical Impact Sites On Jupiter

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Planetary and Space Science

Volume

44

Issue

6

First Page

559

Last Page

564

Abstract

A search was made through historical reports of major dark spots on Jupiter, recorded during the prephotographic era. While many of these reports meet the sufficient condition for impact candidacy (exogenic origin cannot be ruled out), the descriptions and drawings lack the detail required to meet the necessary condition a morphology similar to that created by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts). The lack of available information about specific historical spots on Jupiter is a consequence of the perceived physical nature of these spots at the time, and the traditional purpose of jovian spot observations. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Department

Department of Earth Science

Original Publication Date

1-1-1996

DOI of published version

10.1016/0032-0633(96)00024-4

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