ScienceMag.org is reporting the following:
A large object has slammed into Jupiter, leaving behind a giant black smudge that was first reported yesterday by an amateur astronomer. The find is only the second time in recorded history that scientists have glimpsed an impact scar in the atmosphere of a giant planet. “I never expected I’d get to see something like this,” says astronomer Leigh Fletcher, a postdoc at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
