Three Hundred and Ninety Third Astronomical Disaster

Beidu, National Astronomical Observatory.

Ye Han only looks up at the starry sky occasionally, but the observatory's many equipments are watching 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 were immediately alarmed by the siren and found The flash came from Jupiter, and the watchman couldn't help being startled, quickly adjusted the observation equipment, and immediately notified the superior and other astronomical observation agencies.

The news spread to all major observatories across the country immediately, and many devices were aimed at Jupiter at the same time.

Not only the domestic astronomical community, but also major foreign observatories have also discovered Jupiter's anomalies, and even the observatories on the other side of the earth that are in daylight have obtained real-time images of Jupiter through the Internet.

The Hubble telescope in outer space and the sky survey optical module also adjusted their attitude immediately, aiming the lens at Jupiter.

In 1994, comet Meck-Levy 9 passed near Jupiter on its way back, and the distance from the center of Jupiter was only 110,000 kilometers. For Jupiter with a radius of 70,000 kilometers, this distance is too close. Jupiter did not hesitate to send the comet to Torn apart, more than 20 fragments are like a train, hitting Jupiter continuously for 130 hours, releasing energy equivalent to detonating two billion atomic bombs, or exploding forty trillion tons of TNT!

It was the first time that humans observed a planet-related impact event in the solar system. Jupiter erupted again, and many astronomers immediately thought of the comet impact event. The global astronomy community entered a state of mobilization almost at the same time, and countless astronomers burst out collectively.

However, when everyone's attention was focused on the vicinity of Jupiter, many astronomers discovered to their horror that it was not a comet approaching Jupiter again at all, but Jupiter was approaching Zero!

Jupiter does not have a zero satellite, but a few years ago, Jupiter's strong gravity successfully captured a rogue planet with a diameter of nearly 4,000 kilometers. This rogue planet accurately cut into Jupiter's orbit and became a new satellite of Jupiter.

The volume of this rogue planet exceeds Io and Europa, and it is second only to Ganymede and Callisto in the Europa family. Therefore, when naming this new satellite, two different voices appeared.

One voice believes that the moon should be named Jupiter 68 in numerical order.

Another voice argued that the satellite should be given its due, naming it zero.

In the end, the latter voice prevailed and narrowly won by three votes, so this wandering planet of unknown origin became Europa.

In recent years, the research on Jupiter has never stopped, and the published papers are not as high as the next article. The astronomical community knows the orbit of Jupiter very well. The orbit of Jupiter has been stable for several years. How could it suddenly approach Jupiter?

Could it be that Zero was hit by a large celestial body? Could it be that the flash of light not long ago was produced by a celestial body hitting Jupiter?

No matter what the reason is, it is an indisputable fact that Jupiter is approaching the main body of Jupiter, and according to the current direction of movement of Jupiter, it will not be long before this huge satellite with a diameter larger than the moon will enter Los Angeles. In the limit, the time-bound satellites will be completely torn apart by Jupiter's powerful gravity, and countless fragments will hit Jupiter. The consequences for the Jupiter system and Jupiter itself are unpredictable, and may even affect the entire solar system!

Everyone's breath froze as astronomers around the world pulled out all the stops to calculate the impact with supercomputers.

The orbital change of Jupiter is extremely obvious. In the early morning of the next day, Jupiter's gravity can already disturb the dust in Jupiter's rings. Jupiter successfully captured part of the dust outside Jupiter's rings and adsorbed this part of dust to its surface.

The situation is grim, and the impact is a foregone conclusion. According to the calculation results of the existing orbital data, there are still four days before the impact!

When the news came out, all countries were in an uproar, and even the eyes of the people were temporarily turned away from the insect plague, and turned to the red giant planet in the distant void.

Before the impact happened, all kinds of news predicting the outcome of the impact flooded the major media pages.

Some are positive and optimistic, believing that the impact will not affect the earth; others are negative and pessimistic, believing that the impact will cause major changes in the environment of the solar system, and may even exterminate life on earth.

Time passed slowly in the chaotic noise, and Jupiter's Jupiter was getting closer and closer to Zero, which made everyone's heart tug at their throats. Every TV station's news repeatedly broadcast the picture of the two stars approaching.

Governments of various countries paid close attention to the impact incident, but remained unanimously silent.

A few days later, Io Zero is about to enter the Roche limit, and an impact that will suffocate the whole world is about to happen!

At this time, the ice cap on the surface of Jupiter suddenly peeled off in a large area, and the huge fragments seemed to be equipped with rocket engines, and they left Jupiter one after another and flew in the direction of Jupiter.

The number of fragments is beyond imagination. In just a few hours, the surface of Jupiter, which is close to 4,000 kilometers in diameter, peeled off an entire layer, and the diameter was reduced by more than 300 kilometers. The fragments flying towards Jupiter formed a A dragon of debris that is tens of thousands of kilometers long!

Zero Jupiter, which discarded a huge amount of mass, seems to have succeeded in losing weight. The orbit of Zero Jupiter, which was bound to enter the Roche limit, actually shifted outwards, passing the edge of the Roche limit, and successfully escaped the danger.

All the astronomers who witnessed this scene exclaimed in unison: This is unscientific!

Yes, it's not scientific, but observation equipment can't lie, everything is a reality that actually happened.

The astronomy community is crazy, and the physics community is crazy. They have proved in various ways that such a mutation is absolutely impossible to occur under the existing physical system!

The media was in an uproar, the public was dumbfounded, and the government remained silent.

It's not that the government is ignorant of the impact, but the main task of the governments of various countries is how to deal with the pest disaster. There is neither the need nor the time to care about the impact that is several astronomical units away.

After all, even authoritative experts in the astronomical community can't tell the specific consequences of the impact. It's too early to worry about it now, and it's impossible to arrange high-intensity evacuation preparations because of various speculations in the astronomical community.

Just when the earth was heartbroken for Jupiter, the first fragment from Jupiter fell into Jupiter, and a strong flash burst out instantly. The energy released was equivalent to 300 million "little boy" atomic bombs, and the power of the explosion spread to The area is as large as three point three Earths, and it leaves a distinct black scar on Jupiter's surface.

Since the impact occurred on the side of Jupiter facing the earth, the observation equipment of observatories around the world faithfully recorded this process, followed by the second, and the third... until Jupiter was riddled with rain-like debris. (To be continued.)