I thought it looked like a cascading electrical discharge

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Ainz — 9/13/2012 12:46:24 PM (archived)

Maybe some big-ass lightening.

OTOH, I guess a comet's impact might produce some crazy magneto-hydrodynamic plasma related electrical discharge in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Amateur astronomy is getting 'scary' good.

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Explosion on Jupiter... - Jody - 9/12/2012 10:21:55 PM
- Are they sure that's an impact? - TB - 9/12/2012 10:50:08 PM
  - I thought it looked like a cascading electrical discharge - Ainz - 9/13/2012 12:46:24 PM
    - It seemed something hit, then the discharges cascaded down. - bowser - 9/13/2012 6:39:15 PM
  - SLOOH.com web cast:: Monitoring real-time for Impact scars - Ainz - 9/13/2012 12:08:21 PM
  - I can't think of anything else it might be. - ER - 9/13/2012 12:42:48 AM
  - I understand that they (lots of people) checked on Tuesday morning... - alcaray - 9/12/2012 11:13:43 PM

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