Shock wave phenomena and plasma effects caused by Shoemaker-Levy 9 hypervelocity impact with Jovian atmosphere
✍ Scribed by A.V. Ivlev; V.E. Fortov; B.A. Klumov
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1024 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0734-743X
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✦ Synopsis
Impact of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet with Jupiter has been accompanied by a great number of various effects in the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere of the planet. Among the most interesting effects are bursts of radiation registered in a wide spectral range during the impact of cometary fragments, the generation of giant gaseous plumes and the formation of large-scale long-living vortex structures in the Jovian atmosphere. In the present paper the main observational results obtained during about thirty minutes after the fragments collision with Jupiter are discussed; a unified physical model is suggested which explains consistently the basic observational data.