Just one of the emails (source unknown) sent to Glenn Orton:
"As a human on Earth, I appreciate your efforts to confirm the recent impact on Jupiter. However, your audacity to claim that it was luck and good timing that you and your peers found this event is nauseating. "We were extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," said Glenn Orton, a scientist at JPL. You failed to mention that your stroke of luck was due solely to Anthony Wesley - giving him credit for a mere "tip". You also failed to mention that this "tip" was, in fact, an exact road map to observe an event that went unnoticed by NASA. Are these the desperate measures of an ignored branch of science or a fame-seeking, jealous man who cannot live up to his own expectations in astronomical discoveries? You have only proven yourself to be of the lowest form of human - a plagiarist. You owe every ounce of recognition that you are receiving currently to a hard working astronomical observer in Australia - Anthony Wesley. Not to your prowess, brilliance or luck, which at this point, you show no signs of having."
It is possible when he said "We" he meant everyone in the Astronomy community.
Or not.
Space/Science » in reply to Confirmed
Outrage in amature comunity over JPL's comments
The whole thread (20 posts)
- Is it true? Jupiter has been hit again by a large object? (n/t)
- Statistical aberration or?
- Hale Bopp on the 25th, now this on the 40th? Woah!
- I meant Shoemaker-Levy 9 (n/t)
- Confirmed
- Good to see Jupiter is still playing janitor to the Solar System
- Outrage in amature comunity over JPL's comments
- I'm stunned. I am almost tempted to say this passes coincidence
- and NOT DETECTED before it hit. (n/t)
- Confirmed by NASA JPL
- "discovering that a rare comet or asteroid the size of Earth had crashed into Jupiter"
