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Offline YesRushGen

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Shoemaker Levy 9: 20 Years Later
« on: 07/16/2014 07:17 pm »
While enjoying the historical Apollo 11 "live" thread, I happened across another historical event for today's date. 20 years ago, Shoemaker Levy 9 impacted Jupiter. Phil Plait's has a great retrospective blog post about it on his "Bad Astronomy" blog:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/07/16/shoemaker_levy_9_20_years_later.html

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It was the first time we had ever witnessed such a collision on a planetary body other than the Earth. I’ll note I’m very glad it wasn’t Earth; we wouldn’t be here talking about it if the comet had had us in its crosshairs instead of Jupiter.


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Re: Shoemaker Levy 9: 20 Years Later
« Reply #1 on: 07/16/2014 09:28 pm »
Remember taking the scope out to look at Jupiter when it happened... it has now been 20 years, wow.

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