Sharpest Photo of Jupiter's Earth-Sized Scar Taken by Hubble - Jupiter impact site - Gizmodo: "Hubble was at the time being tested and calibrated, but this kind of massive impact only comes around every few decades or so, and the Hubble team scrambled to aim one of their cameras at Jupiter's new, massive scar. The impact site is about the same as the diameter of Earth, though the object that caused it was likely only about 50-100 miles across. The asteroid, or whatever it was, was travelling at somewhere between 31 and 62 miles per second when it smashed into the gas giant near its south pole. The Hubble's repairs will actually be delayed due to the need to photograph this event, and won't be back online until late summer."
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Does the concept of "earth size scar" make you feel small? Some say God placed (or life inhabiting planets need) a huge Jupiter size guardian to gravitationally suck up the debris that would more often strike earth if Jupiter was not present. They believe this is one of the many fine tuning type events necessary to sustaining life on earth (or anywhere).
Or maybe earth simply keeps winning the galactic lottery over and over. Oh and yes, many life inhabiting planets keep winning the same galactic lottery of fine tuning and the universe is full of sentient beings. Which is harder to believe ... hmmmm ... thinking ... let me SETI here awhile and ponder the question.
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