• Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation...
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    Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and...
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    that Levy co-discovered include 118P/ShoemakerLevy, 129P/ShoemakerLevy, 135P/ShoemakerLevy, 137P/ShoemakerLevy, 138P/ShoemakerLevy, 145P/Shoemaker–Levy...
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    Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9. She discovered 32...
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    moons and Amalthea. The spacecraft also witnessed the impact of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 when it collided with Jupiter in 1994. Some of the goals for the mission...
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    are only loosely held together, such as a comet. For instance, comet ShoemakerLevy 9's decaying orbit around Jupiter passed within its Roche limit in July...
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    118P/ShoemakerLevy (also known as periodic comet ShoemakerLevy 4) is a comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy. During...
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    observed, the most significant of which was the collision of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 in 1994. Jupiter is the most massive planet in the Solar System and...
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  • the sky and subsequently lost. One such Jupiter-family comet, Comet ShoemakerLevy 9, approached close enough to Jupiter sometime between the late 1960s...
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    to have encountered the Earth since the Tunguska event. The Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 impact provided the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial...
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    Ganymede. As it approached Jupiter, it also witnessed the impact of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9. In December 1995, it sent an atmospheric probe into the Jovian atmosphere...
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    "D/1993 F2 ShoemakerLevy 9". Gary W. Kronk's Cometography. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2009. "Comet ShoemakerLevy Background"...
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    129P/ShoemakerLevy, also known as ShoemakerLevy 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter...
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  • SL-9 may refer to: Proton rocket, type 8K82, used from 1965-1966 Heckler & Koch SL8, a semi-automatic rifle Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 Schütte-Lanz SL.9 An...
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  • 138P/ShoemakerLevy, also known as ShoemakerLevy 7, is a faint periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet last came to perihelion on 11 June 2012,...
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    asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida. In 1994, Galileo observed Comet ShoemakerLevy 9's collision with Jupiter. Jupiter's atmospheric composition and ammonia...
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    about the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the 1994 impact of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 on Jupiter. Many stories involve attempts to alter asteroid trajectories...
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    in 1989. She led the team using the Hubble Space Telescope to view Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact with Jupiter in 1994. She has used the Hubble Space Telescope...
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    Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 to Jupiter in July 1994 created a greater perception of importance to the detection of near Earth objects. As David Levy stated...
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    as part of the CANDELS/GOODS-North surveys. The collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994 was fortuitously timed for astronomers, coming...
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  • AD Comet ShoemakerLevy 9, a comet that crashed into planet Jupiter This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shoemaker. If an internal...
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    atmosphere are thought to originate from impacting comets, such as Shoemaker-Levy 9. The water cannot come from the troposphere because the cold tropopause...
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    K–Pg boundary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bolide. Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 § Impacts Earth-grazing fireball Meteor procession Tollmann's hypothetical...
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  • planet follows an orbit similar to those of the fragments of comet ShoemakerLevy 9. This minor planet was numbered (606357) by the Minor Planet Center...
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  • Shoemaker (1931–2003), American jockey Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021), astronomer and co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Charles F. Shoemaker (1841–1913)...
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    "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects". K1 project. August 9, 2012. Archived from the original on July 23, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2021...
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  • 181P and 192P are known as Comet ShoemakerLevy 6 and Comet ShoemakerLevy 1, respectively. Non-periodic ShoemakerLevy comets are interleaved in this sequence:...
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    North Dakota. similar to the well observed string of impacts of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 on Jupiter in 1994. However, more recent work has found that the craters...
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  • human habitation beyond it. The book was published the same year comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, an event Sagan uses to highlight the danger Earth...
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    attributed to a perturbation caused by impact of material from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. The C Ring is a wide but faint ring located inward of the...
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