Asteroid the size of the Titanic caused giant crater on Jupiter spotted by amateur astronomer | Mail Online

Asteroid the size of the Titanic caused giant crater on Jupiter spotted by amateur astronomer | Mail Online: "The scar left on Jupiter after the July 2009 impact was caused by an asteroid the size of the Titanic, according to research.

A huge rock some 500metres long hit the planet and created a hole the size of the Pacific Ocean, roughly the equivalent of Jupiter’s Little Red Spot.

It was the first time scientists had monitored an asteroid hitting the planet - previously it had only been thought that icy comets hit Jupiter after being sucked in by its gravitational field."