Shoemaker-Levy 9


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Shoemaker-Levy 9

(shoo -may-ker lee -vee) A comet discovered in 1993 in a 2-year orbit round Jupiter by Caroline and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy. It had broken into about 20 fragments, which crashed successively into Jupiter over a period of 6 days in July 1994. Infrared fireballs and dark clouds were produced in Jupiter's atmosphere.
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"Only Herschel was able to provide the sensitive spectral imaging needed to find the missing link between Jupiter's water and the 1994 impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9," Thibault Cavalie of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, lead author of the paper said.
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After witnessing Shoemaker-Levy 9's collision with Jupiter, people began to pay closer attention to objects that could pose a threat to Earth.
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"When scientists observed the impacts of the pieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in July, 1994, they said that the impact of a fragmented comet could never happen here on Earth because the Earth's gravitational field is too weak to break a comet into pieces," notes David Rowley, associate professor in geophysical sciences, University of Chicago (Ill.).
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David Levy, with Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker, had just found Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. They didn't yet know that just a year later the enigmatic object would crash right into Jupiter itself.
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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.
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Scientists traced a similar structure in Jupiter's rings--spied by the Galileo probe--to debris littered by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as it crashed into that planet in 1994.
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1994 Photographs the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter.
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