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Shoemaker-Levy

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Meaning

Shoemaker-Levy

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, a comet which collided with Jupiter.

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In 1994, Galileo was perfectly positioned to watch the fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash into Jupiter, whereas terrestrial telescopes had to wait to see the impact sites as they rotated into view. Source: Internet

The collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994 was fortuitously timed for astronomers, coming just a few months after Servicing Mission 1 had restored Hubble's optical performance. Source: Internet

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