Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

The Shoemaker’s and Levy co-discovered the comet. The emotional payoff of discovering a comet orbiting a planet was something Levy described as a “magic day,” which occurred on March 23, 1993.

Add the Jupiter crash of comet Shoemaker-Levy in 1994, Halley's most recent visit in 1986, vivid comet West in 1976, and the scientifically signifiant—if visually disappointing—Kohoutek in ...

Back in 1994, the gas giant was pelted with pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of several days, an event that according to NASA left "huge, dark scars in the planet's atmosphere ...

According to LiveScience.com, one such phenomenon happed in 1994, when tidal forces disrupted pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, torn apart two years earlier, while it was en route for Jupiter.

BOSLOUGH, MARK B. E. and CRAWFORD, DAVID A. 1997. Shoemaker‐Levy 9 and Plume‐forming Collisions on Eartha. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 822 ...

There’s plenty more before those, too, including the famous 1994 collision between comet Shoemaker-Levy and Jupiter. Spoiler: Jupiter won that game of cosmic chicken going away. The only ...

Levy, who was a discoverer of Astronomer Levy (author of last year's Shoemaker by Levy) is best known as the co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994.