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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: In 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, providing astronomers with a rare opportunity to study the effects of a comet impact.

In July 1994, astronomers witnessed something unprecedented: a comet colliding with a planet in real-time. Shoemaker-Levy 9’s fragments pummeled Jupiter with explosive force, creating ...

Astronomers named that comet Shoemaker Levy-9. A few years later—on the far safer terra firma of Newmarket, Ontario—a bunch of indie/alt-rockers decided to christen their new group Shoemaker Levee, in ...

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.

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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, creating an explosion thousands of times more potent than Earth's nuclear arsenal. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!