Dean Regas chats with astronomer David Levy, unpacking the discovery of the famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Listen in and find out how you can start chasing comets yourself.

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

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The best known among them was Shoemaker-Levy 9, the soon-to-be spectacular comet he discovered with Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker in 1993.

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This happened when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter in 1994, the first time we had ever had advanced notice of a collision between a comet and a planet. Topics: Saturn ...

In July 1992, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made its closest approach to Jupiter, skimming 25,000 miles (40,000 km) above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

He captured the first photographic spectrum of a comet, and later analysis of the imagery revealed cyanogen emissions at certain wavelengths.