A recent Time magazine cover story on
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 said of Levy: "In his collaboration with the Shoemakers, Levy is the romantic.
It was widely speculated that
comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 may have been the origin of this water, but direct proof was missing.
With which planet did the
comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collide in 1994?
If a large object the size of
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, that recently slammed into Jupiter, were to hit Earth, civilization could be destroyed.
1994 Photographs the
comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter.
Ever since the release of sci-fi thrillers like Armageddon and Deep Impact, and the 1994 collision of
comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter, "it's become difficult to inform people about newly discovered objects without being sensational," Binzel says.
In 1994, we were all spell bound as the 21 pieces of
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter leaving Earth-sized black "eyes.
David Levy, one of the discoverers of
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, and Don Yeomans of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory also will participate in the discussion, said Caltech spokeswoman Stephanie Zeluck.
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter Home Page (accessed 12-19-1994).
As
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 races toward its mid-July collision with the planet Jupiter, considerable public attention is being focused on catastrophic impacts with the Earth--in the past and in the future.
Topping off Discover Astronomy is a full-screen Photo Gallery, which features stunning full-color astro-photographs of fascinating astronomical phenomenon, such as the doomed
comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the Horsehead Nebula, and Voyager 2 photos of Saturn and Neptune.
During the crossing, icy and rocky debris in the belt could crash into the planet's atmosphere and create the type of cosmic fireworks seen when
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter.
