393 Astronomical catastrophe
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Ye Han only occasionally looked up at the starry sky, but many equipment of the observatory was looking at the universe outside the sky day and night, the dazzling flash in the starry sky immediately caused a strong reaction from the observation equipment, the staff on duty at the observatory was immediately alarmed by the sound of the alarm, and found that the flash came from Jupiter, the attendant couldn't help but be startled, quickly adjusted the observation equipment, and immediately notified the superior and other astronomical observation institutions.
The news spread to the major observatories across the country for the first time, and many devices aimed at Jupiter at the same time.
Not only the domestic astronomical community, but also major foreign observatories have also discovered the anomaly of Jupiter, and even the observatory on the other side of the earth that is in the middle of the day has obtained real-time images of Jupiter through the Internet.
The Hubble telescope in outer space and the Sky Survey Optical Capsule also adjusted their attitude at the first time and aimed their lenses at Jupiter.
In 1994, Comet Meck-Levy 9 passed near Jupiter on the way back, only 110,000 kilometers away from the center of Jupiter, which is too close for Jupiter with a radius of 70,000 kilometers, Jupiter did not hesitate to tear the comet apart, more than 20 pieces of debris are like a train, constantly hitting Jupiter for 130 hours, releasing energy equivalent to detonating two billion atomic bombs, or 4 trillion tons of TNT explosion!
It was the first time that humans observed a planet-related celestial impact event in the solar system, Jupiter erupted again, many astronomers immediately thought of the comet impact event, and the global astronomical community entered a state of mobilization almost at the same time, and countless astronomers collectively exploded.
However, when everyone's attention was focused on Jupiter's vicinity, many astronomers were horrified to discover that it was not a comet approaching Jupiter again, it was Ganymede that was close to Jupiter!
Jupiter did not have a moon Zero, but a few years ago, Jupiter's strong gravitational pull successfully captured a wandering planet with a diameter of nearly 4,000 kilometers, and this wandering planet accurately cut into Jupiter's orbit and became Jupiter's new moon.
The wandering planet is larger than Europa and Europa and second only to Europa and Europa in the Ganymede family, so when naming this new moon, two different voices emerged.
One voice suggested that the moon should be named Ganymede 68 in numerical order.
Another voice argues that the satellite should be given the treatment it deserves, naming it with zero.
In the end, the latter voice prevailed and narrowly won by three votes, so this wandering planet of unknown origin became Ganymede.
In recent years, research on Callisto has not stopped, and many papers have been published, and the astronomical community knows all about Callisto's orbit - how could it suddenly approach Jupiter, whose orbit has been stable for several years?
Could it be that Europa was hit by a large celestial body? Could it be that the flash of light not so long ago was caused by a celestial body hitting Europa?
Regardless of the reason, it is an indisputable fact that Europa is approaching Jupiter, and according to the current direction of Callisto's motion, it will not be long before this huge moon, which is larger than the Moon, will enter the Loch limit, and the bounded moon will be completely torn apart by Jupiter's strong gravity, and countless debris will hit Jupiter, and the consequences for Europin and Jupiter itself are unpredictable, and may even affect the entire solar system!
Everyone's breath froze, and astronomers all over the world did their best to calculate the results of the impact with a supercomputer.
Callisto had a noticeable change in its orbit, and in the early hours of the next morning, Callisto's gravitational pull was able to disturb the dust in Jupiter's rings, and Callisto successfully captured some of the dust on the outer side of Jupiter's rings and adsorbed this dust to its surface.
The situation is dire, the impact is a foregone conclusion, and according to the calculations of the available orbital data, there are still four days left before the impact!
When the news broke, all countries were in an uproar, and even the eyes of the people temporarily moved away from the insect plague and turned to the red giant planet in the distant void.
Before the impact occurred, all kinds of news predicting the outcome of the impact flooded the pages of major media pages, and many experts and celebrities sang about it, and some were positive and optimistic, believing that the impact would not affect the earth; There are also negative pessimists, believing that the impact will cause great changes in the environment of the solar system, and may even wipe out life on Earth.
Time passed slowly in the chaotic hustle and bustle, and Ganymede, which was getting closer and closer to Jupiter, made everyone's hearts tug at their throats, and the news of every TV station repeatedly broadcast the picture of the two stars approaching.
Governments are highly concerned about the impact, but have remained unanimous in their silence in a rare manner.
In a few days, Europa is about to enter the Loch limit, and the impact that will suffocate the world is about to happen!
At this time, the ice cap on the surface of Ganymede suddenly peeled off in a large area, and the huge debris seemed to be equipped with a rocket engine, and they broke away from Ganymede and flew in the direction of Jupiter.
The number of debris is beyond imagination, in just a few hours, the surface of Ganymede, which is close to 4,000 kilometers in diameter, actually peels off a whole layer, and the diameter is reduced by more than 300 kilometers, and the fragments flying towards Jupiter form a long dragon of debris that is tens of thousands of kilometers long!
Aside from the huge mass, it seems that the slimming has been successful, and the Callisto Zero, which was bound to enter the Loch limit, actually shifted its orbit outward, brushed the edge of the Loch limit, and successfully escaped from the danger.
All the astronomers who witnessed this scene exclaimed: This is not scientific!
True, this is not scientific, but the observation equipment does not lie, everything is the reality of what really happened.
The astronomical community is crazy, the physics community is crazy, and they have proved in various ways that under the existing physical system, such a change is absolutely impossible!
The media was in an uproar, the people were stunned, and the government remained silent.
It's not that governments are unaware of the impact event, but the main task of the governments of the world is how to deal with the insect plague, and for the impact that is a few astronomical units away, there is no need to care about it, and there is no time to care.
After all, even authoritative experts in the field of astronomy could not tell the specific consequences of the impact, and it was too early to care about it, and it was impossible to arrange high-intensity evacuation preparations because of all kinds of speculation in the field of astronomy.
Just when the earth was heartbroken for Jupiter, the first fragment from Europa crashed into Jupiter, instantly bursting into a strong flash, releasing energy equivalent to 300 million "little boy" atomic bombs, the explosion power spread to the size of three points and three Earths, and left obvious black scars on the surface of Jupiter.
Since the impact occurred on the side of Jupiter towards the Earth, the observation equipment of the observatories around the country faithfully recorded this process, followed by a second, a third...... Until Jupiter was smashed into pieces like falling rain. (To be continued.) )