Chapter 519 - Collision
In front of everyone, the red dot on the screen suddenly disappeared - of course, everyone was more or less prepared for this, because it meant that the debris had entered the back ground and was about to complete the final collision with Jupiter.
At some point, Chiba suddenly felt his heart beat faster - even though there was nothing unusual on the screen at this point, he always felt that something might have happened.
"Bumped into?" Beside him, Gray Plains asked softly.
"I don't know," Qian Yu asked, shaking her head and asking in the same whisper. "How do you know?"
"I didn't know, I thought you knew," Gray Hara replied, glancing at Chiha's hand. "Your hand shook a little bit just now."
At this point, the time on the screen has quietly reached 20:15, which means that the collision is likely to be completed, and the final results of the experiment on how much the comet can affect Jupiter are about to appear in front of everyone.
So, what exactly is the result? Will it produce a large-scale spectacle that would even produce enough fireballs, as the radicals predicted, or will it not have any impact at all, as the conservatives estimated?
Suddenly, the color red dominates a small part of Jupiter's location - right in front of everyone, a red sphere suddenly appears on the edge of Jupiter, and a ball of fire rises in front of everyone. There is no doubt that even if the A fragment of Shoemaker Klevi does not cause as much trauma as radicals believe, it is definitely enough to dismiss the conservative view.
"It's here......" Qian Yu muttered. This one...... I don't think it's going to be ......."
"It should be here," Gray Plains also whispered to Chiba. "It doesn't look like it's going to be small."
"This is more than they had expected," MΔori Kogoro muttered beside them. "Oh my God......"
Prior to the actual observations, the most optimistic prediction was that the asymmetrical ballistic fireball produced by Shoemaker Levi might rise high enough to reach the edge of Jupiter and eventually be observed from Earth. No one could have imagined that this fireball would rush into the field of vision of Earth observers at such a speed β and judging by the current situation, it is entirely possible that this fireball would fly even higher.
"Wait a minute......" Qian Yu muttered. Judging by the crash situation, perhaps we will soon be able to see the impact marks. I think we're probably going to see something horrible......"
"I suddenly thought of something interesting," Gray Plains said lightly. "If we can see something interesting later, maybe an interesting theory will be very marketable."
"What do you mean?" Chiba turned his head.
"Let's take a look first," Gray Yuan Ai didn't answer the question directly, just shrugged his shoulders. "There's no point in saying this if the effect isn't as big as it seems."
Qianyu thought for a moment, but immediately saw the "interesting thing" that Gray Yuan was referring to
On the screen, Jupiter had already completed a small rotation, and something quite surprising had already appeared in front of them.
"It's quite amazing...... Qian Yu said in surprise. Size......"
βοΌβ Several people nearby looked at Chiba a little strangely, but Gray Yuan only raised an eyebrow.
"If it's just to watch the fireball, it's fine until now," at that moment, Jiroyoshi Suzuki's voice rang out. "Although Jupiter's rotation is indeed very fast, if you want to see the traces on the ground of Jupiter, it may take more than an hour to see more clearly - don't be too anxious, the traces are there, and you can't run."
For Chiba, the auxiliary unit has been able to observe the impact crater of the A fragment that appears on the visible edge under Jupiter's rapid rotation, but this impact crater is still difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the specific shape, and it is difficult to intuitively realize that it is a circular impact crater.
So in order to be consistent with the others, he should be quiet, and then keep a timely silence until everyone can see the pit.
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After the screening, in the restaurant, the members of the Young Detective Corps surrounded the smug Mori Kogoro and kept paying tribute to the food on their plates.
"Uncle Detective!"
"Detective-sama!"
"Hmph," Mori Kogoro raised his eyebrows and looked at Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and the others with flattering faces. "You little devils, you think I don't know your minds? Don't you just want to know what's going on in the whole case? β
"Uh-huh!" Mitsuhiko nodded. "Can you tell us about it?"
"Hmm-" Mori Kogoro glanced at Officer Nakamori and the others in the distance, and lowered his voice a little. "You should know that although drugs are the same all over the world, the price of these drugs is different around the world for a variety of reasons - among them, New Zealand has the highest price due to regulatory factors, so they made the decision to smuggle it into New Zealand from the cheaper United States to make a profit."
"And then the suspect named Masako, who was born in Guam, was one of the members of the local Guam gang before joining this Fujioka Takado kidnapping gang, and then she took the opportunity to contact the people in their gang who were close to her, and then they stole a batch of drugs from their gang and planned to sell them in New Zealand and make a fortune."
Qian Yu raised her eyebrows, and then exchanged a somewhat subtle look with Gray Yuan.
I don't know why, although they did break the law and deserved it, they still had some sympathy for these unlucky people - they finally played with a big list and smashed it.
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At ten o'clock in the morning, Qian Yu and Gray Yuan Ai had already returned to the movie screening room together - at this time, Jupiter had already rotated, exposing the entire impact in front of everyone, and Gray Yuan Ai also realized for the first time why Qian Yu was so surprised before.
A rather terrifying scar has appeared on the surface of Jupiter - if you take into account the sheer size of Jupiter itself, the crater that appeared on Jupiter is at least 5,000 kilometers in diameter. On one side of the crater, a crescent-shaped crescent several sizes larger than this pit was clearly visible.
"This ......" Gray Yuan's face had changed. Hey, are you sure this isn't something that came before...... Is it? β
"No," Qian Yu immediately shook his head. "There should be no pits in this position on the map of Jupiter...... I'm afraid this is the crater that was hit by the A fragment just now...... To be honest, the actual size of the crater was one size larger than I had estimated at the time β based on the size of Jupiter, the crater was about 6,000 kilometers or so......"
"It's just a pit smashed out by a little guy about a kilometer in diameter!"