Amateur observer Jose Luis Pereira was able to capture that moment The impact of a space rock was recorded On the surface of Jupiter at the time Monday, September 13 at noon. Whenever the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars converge and there is a clear sky, it tries to form images of three stars.

On Sunday and Monday, Pereira placed his equipment in the state of So Paulo in the southeastern province of So Paulo. Intended to capture and videotape Jupiter For the DeTeCt program. This system is trying to detect and behave Effects on the planet, Where We were able to collect 25 clips Despite the weather complications.

Initially, Pereira ignored the inadequacy of classifying it as an error

When capturing material, A little sparkle was appreciated In the first of the videos, though It was dismissed as an important event This was considered as part of the parameters selected for monitoring. However, the next day after reviewing the results of the DeTeCt program, he discovered this An alert had been raised for a high probability of impact In the same video, the test later turned out to be positive.

Following this, Pereira decided to send his results to Marc Delcroix, a member of the French Astronomical Society, who confirmed it. It was really a shock It happened around noon on Monday.

Space rocks constantly besiege Jupiter

This is because the planet orbits near an asteroid belt Has a strong gravitational pull, Is Jupiter Impact by such materials Most often, for example, fragments of a comet Shoe Maker-Levy9 It crashed in July 1994, leaving traces in the atmosphere I could see them for months. In addition, such shocks reveal the structure of the planet by opening a kind of “window” between the clouds.

Another high impact was recorded 15 years later in January 2011, When an object opened a gap the size of the Pacific Ocean in the planet’s air, it was held long enough Astronomers can study it.

However, in this event registered by Perera, it seems that there is no chance Study the impact zoneBecause, according to astronomer Damien Peach, No visible spots leftTherefore, the object may have been too small to reach the deep atmosphere. However, such objects give us other evidence of how such astronomical phenomena develop in real time.