An amateur astronomers in the Philippines and Australia witnessed the collision occurred by an asteroid that hit planet Jupiter at Thursday June 3, 2010. The image provided by Anthony Wesley shows bright flash, upper left, from an object hitting the Jovian surface. The event was also confirmed by another amateur skygazer in the Philippines.
Wesley's photos show the Jupiter fireball blazing in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet. So far, no visible scar in the clouds has been reported from the event.
Wesley described the event as a "large fireball" on his website, where he posted the photos taken from Broken Hill, Australia.
Jupiter has been known as the "Solar System's vacuum cleaner", because of its huge gravity force, and location near the inner Solar System, it receives the most frequent comet hits of the Solar System's planets. It was thought that the planet makes a shield for the inner system from potential collisions.
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