The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

Details The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

Aug 1998

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Space Science Reviews, v. 85, Issue 3/4, p. 523-545 (1998).

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The discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in March 1993 opened an extraordinary few years in the study of the history of impacts in the solar system. This review paper offers a background that attempts to set the events of 1993 and 1994 into a historical context, and describes events leading to the discovery and the mounting of a unique and unprecedented international effort to observe the comet's collision with Jupiter. A selection of the results is presented to explore how the fate of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 has affected scientific and popular understanding of impacts in the solar system.

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