Gerrit Kerbauer of Moedling, Austria captured a unique event on March 17th, 2016 while recording video of Jupiter. Though seeing conditions were not ideal, Gerrit was recording Jupiter with a Skywatcher Newton 200/1000. In doing so, he managed to capture what appears to be a brief, but significant meteor strike on the planet. He writes in his YouTube post, " The seeing was not the best, so i hesitated to process the Videos. Nevertheless 10 days later i looked through the Videos and i found this strange light spot that appeared for less than one second on the edge of the planetary disc. Thinking back to Shoemaker-Levy 9, my only explanation for this is an asteroid or comet that enters Jupiters high atmosphere and burned up/explode very fast.."
The event occurred at 00:18:33 UTC on March 17th. It was recorded with an Alccd5L-IIc camera on a Skywatcher Newton 200/1000 8" telescope at f/15 from Moedling, Austria. Moedling is just South West of Vienna.
Given that it did not appear to disturb the surface or leave a lasting trace, one can reasonably rule out an asteroid strike. Nevertheless, it appears to be a meteor of some size.
Congratulations to Gerrit for an amazing capture!
Original post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LiL7RYG7ac