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... Comet Collision With Jupiter Discovery of Periodic Comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 , which collided with Jupiter in July 1994 , was one of the more spectacular results of a detailed , long - term , telescopic sur- vey of the night sky by U.S. ...
... Comet Collision With Jupiter Discovery of Periodic Comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 , which collided with Jupiter in July 1994 , was one of the more spectacular results of a detailed , long - term , telescopic sur- vey of the night sky by U.S. ...
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... Comet Survey stands at 33 . The winter of 1993 was a difficult one at Palomar . Stormy weather occurred through- out ... comet , which was bar shaped and had a coma , tail , and wings , unlike the usual round comet , which has a coma and ...
... Comet Survey stands at 33 . The winter of 1993 was a difficult one at Palomar . Stormy weather occurred through- out ... comet , which was bar shaped and had a coma , tail , and wings , unlike the usual round comet , which has a coma and ...
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... Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9. The image on the left was made in green light with the Planetary Camera channel of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 ( WFPC2 ) . The image on the right is the same field taken through the WFPC2 methane filter ...
... Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9. The image on the left was made in green light with the Planetary Camera channel of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 ( WFPC2 ) . The image on the right is the same field taken through the WFPC2 methane filter ...
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... comet and said that he could see five separate comets lined up in a bar with wings of dust . This comet was 19 9 3e , to become known as Periodic Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 , for it was the ninth periodic ( orbit less than 200 years ) comet ...
... comet and said that he could see five separate comets lined up in a bar with wings of dust . This comet was 19 9 3e , to become known as Periodic Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 , for it was the ninth periodic ( orbit less than 200 years ) comet ...
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... comet impact on Earth . The dark marks in the Jovian atmo- sphere have persisted well into October . Meanwhile , the USGS team continued the search at Palomar and discovered three more comets . For Gene and Carolyn Shoe- maker , Periodic ...
... comet impact on Earth . The dark marks in the Jovian atmo- sphere have persisted well into October . Meanwhile , the USGS team continued the search at Palomar and discovered three more comets . For Gene and Carolyn Shoe- maker , Periodic ...
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