Daniel Fischer<p>30 years ago <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> the International Astronomical Union Circular <a href="http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05800/05800.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/0580</span><span class="invisible">0/05800.html</span></a> first predicted the impact of comet <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SL9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SL9</span></a> into <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Jupiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jupiter</span></a> a year later with the immortal words about the expected minimum distance from the center of the planet: "Delta_J will be only 0.0003 AU (Jupiter's radius being 0.0005 AU) on 1994 July 25.4."</p>
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Daniel Fischer<p>We present a retrospective analysis of Earth-based mid-infrared observations of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Jupiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jupiter</span></a> capturing the aftermath of the impacts by Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 (henceforth <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SL9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SL9</span></a>) in July 1994 and the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Wesley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wesley</span></a> impactor in July 2009: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01347" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2301.01347</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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