are there any craters on Jupiter? how big?

Answer 1

in 1995 when the comat shoemaker-levy 9 broke up into 15 pieces and slamed into jupiter there were crater-like scars left on the cloud surfaces the sizes of earth. but the dust that made these spots faded after a year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9

here everything you need to know, i remember that year, and im only 25. very exciting time for astronomy

Answer 2

Hi. Probably not. There are none in the atmosphere, of course, but Jupiter may have a solid core and maybe even some craters left over from when it was forming. I doubt it personally.

Answer 3

No. A meteor hitting Jupiter would cause a splash and possibly an explosion, but no craters. it's like throwing a rock into water (liguified gasses under intense pressure.)

Answer 4

Please look up Jupiter before asking all your homework questions. If you had looked into it a bit, you would have realized that Jupiter is a gas planet with a core of metallic hydrogen. It can't have craters.

Answer 5

I concur with Eri above. The fact that 4 planets are gas planets and only the inner four are rocky, is basic basic astronomy - something you could look up anywhere. There are hundreds of books on the planets and the info would be in thousands of pages on the internet.

Do some homework.

Answer 6

no craters