Collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter: what did we see.

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Apr 1996

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Soviet Physics Uspekhi, Vol. 39, No. 4, p. 363 - 392

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Jupiter: Comets, Jupiter: Impact Phenomena

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In July 1994, a dramatic event took place - the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. This collision has been accompanied by a great number of effects in the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere of Jupiter. The comet impact became one of the most grandiose active experiments nature has ever performed. Among the most interesting effects are bursts of radiation registered over a wide spectral range during the cometary fragments infall, the generation of giant gaseous plumes caused by the impact, the formation of large-scale long-lived vortex structures in the Jovian atmosphere. Unexpected events were the significant brightening of the Jovian radiation belts during the cometary fragments impact, the peculiarities of polar aurorae induced by the impact, the weakening of the Io plasma torus brightness observed in the extreme UV range, etc. The authors review the results of the comet impact with Jupiter and a unified physical model is suggested which explains consistently the basic observational data.

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