A meteorite collided with the largest planet in our solar system

On August 7, a meteorite collided with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.

A Texas astronomer filmed the event and posted it on Twitter, showing a lightning bolt in the southern half of Jupiter, according to the Express.

The astronomer commented: "I noticed the collision thanks to an excellent program called" DeTeCt by Marc Delcroix "specially designed to detect such lightning."

Some experts believe that Jupiter protects Earth from collision with meteorites and prevents Jupiter from flying over the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter around the solar system thanks to its enormous gravitational force.

Jupiter is also believed to be attracting lunar asteroids, and NASA has announced that if Jupiter's gravitational force had not been exerted, the meteorites would continually reach the planets of the solar system.

"The presence of Jupiter already protects Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars from repeated collisions of the asteroid," NASA said in a statement.

This is not the first time that a meteorite collides with Jupiter, and it had already arrived on July 19, 2009.

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