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Greg — (archived)

From the research I've done I don't think there's any chance Plu-238 could have been fissile under those conditions. They put the stuff in an A bomb and it doesn't undergo fission properly even with all the help of the Plu-239. Any fission that does occur with it happens because of all the neutrons from the Plu-239 that weren't available on Jupiter. Also in an A bomb the temperatures and pressures are higher than on Jupiter.
When comets crash into Jupiter the temperatures and pressures are also very high but they don't initiate any fusion, so there's no reason for the Gallileo to have. Also the spot is nowhere near the latitude that the probe entered the atmosphere.
I can't see then that there is any possiblity this could have occured. If it had have been at the same latitude there would have been some hope of an unknown situation but this is 30 degrees of latitude away from the impact point.

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