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Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter [July 16 through July 22, 1994]
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| Friday, July 10, 2009
| Ron Baalke
Posted on 07/10/2009 12:53:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, and the effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere have been simply spectacular and beyond expectations. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 consisted of at least 21 discernable fragments with diameters estimated at up to 2 kilometers.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; jupiter; levy; shoemaker
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posted on
07/10/2009 12:53:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
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posted on
07/10/2009 12:55:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
Um, will be watching? LOL
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posted on
07/10/2009 12:55:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: cripplecreek
Why-yi-youghta... There's one in every crowd... ;')
shoemaker levy jupiter impact Google
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posted on
07/10/2009 12:56:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
I remember that like it was yesterday. :-)
To: SunkenCiv
Jupiter is a huge ball of gas.
This collision will unleash an explosion,
which will either destroy the planet,
or turn it into a star. I’m series.
This is HUGH!
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posted on
07/10/2009 12:58:10 PM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: SunkenCiv
Should we move this to Breaking News?
To: SunkenCiv
That was so awesome to watch!!!
I’m still not tired of it.
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posted on
07/10/2009 1:00:44 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(RUN, SARAH, RUN! ~~ [Borrowed from redhead])
To: SunkenCiv
I remember that, it was pretty spectacular. The folks in the JPM control room were going absolutely batty with delight.
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posted on
07/10/2009 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: SunkenCiv
It was all faked in studios in Hollywood! There was no collision! It was all staged by NASA and the White House!
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posted on
07/10/2009 1:09:43 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Monkey Face
From the Shoemaker bio:
"In 1961 he took a leading role in the USGS venture, in Flagstaff, Arizona, into the study of "astrogeology", the Ranger missions to the moon and the training of the astronauts. It had long been Gene's dream to go to the moon himself, but in 1963 he was diagnosed as having Addison's disease, a condition that prevented him from becoming an astronaut."
Evidently he didn't have the equivalent of Joseph P. Kennedy as his father! NASA would have had some strings pulled and some wheels greased.
To: SunkenCiv
So this is like a “This Day in History” article except it’s not this day but next Thursday?
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posted on
07/10/2009 1:35:05 PM PDT
by
delacoert
(imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim; imperat animus sibi, et resistitur -- Augustini)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
It’s OK that he didn’t have a robber baron for a dad. He has done wonders for understanding craters here, and on other orbs. He was awesome!
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posted on
07/10/2009 1:37:24 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(RUN, SARAH, RUN! ~~ [Borrowed from redhead])
To: delacoert
I didn’t want to forget, better to be early. (15th anniversary)
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posted on
07/10/2009 2:06:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
I couldn’t find it in the archives, but I’m CERTAIN that has already been posted. ;)
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posted on
07/10/2009 2:09:06 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(Helping others to be more like me since 1960!)
To: freedumb2003
That was *supposed* to be a secret. Nice going.
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posted on
07/10/2009 2:18:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Ignatz
Heh... yeah, it happened before FR arrived on the world stage, so I didn’t even do a search. :’)
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posted on
07/10/2009 2:19:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
OH, SNAP!
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posted on
07/10/2009 5:43:52 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
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