Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter

Jupiter's Aurora

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.

News Flash (Last Updated June 2, 1995)

• Image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy (March 28, 1993).
• Image of Jupiter's Aurora.
• GCT Image of Jupiter
• GCT Image of Fragment L Impact (July 19, 1994).
• GCT Image of Jupiter (July 20, 1994).

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Background Information

Latest Conclusions of the Comet Collision

Images, Images, Images (1175 Images, 64 Observatories)

• Top 20 Comet SL9 Images
• Most Recent Comet SL9 Images
• Images Sorted By Observatory
• Images Sorted By Fragment Impact
• Miscellaneous Images

Animations

Comet Shoemaker-Levy Impact Times

• Impact Times for SL9 (Chodas & Yeomans - March 18, 1995).
• Impact Times for SL9 (Calar Alto - October 25, 1994).
• Post-Crash Impact Times for SL9 (Chodas & Yeomans - August 5, 1994).
• Lastest Table of Impact Times for the remaining comet fragments from Chodas, Yeomans (July 20, 1994).
• Predicted Impact Times of the Lost Fragments (July 11, 1994)
• Best Viewing Locations for the Impacts (June 25, 1994)
• Earth Facing Views of Each Impact.
• Likelihood of Fireball Visibility.

TV Coverage

• NASA TV
• PBS
• CNN

Spacecraft Observations of the Impacts

• Galileo
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Voyager 2
• Ulysses
• International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
• Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
• Roentgensatellit (ROSAT)
• NASA Sounding Rocket

Ground Based Observations

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Caltech
• Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
• Comet Impact Network Experiment
• Deep Space Network
• European Southern Observatory
• Griffith Observatory
• Infrared Telescope Facility
• IUE Observatory.
• Keck Telescope
• Kitt Peak National Observatory
• Kuiper Airborne Observatory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Lick and Leuschner Observatories
• Lowell Observatory
• McDonald Observatory
• Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Obvservatories
• Mt. Wilson Observatory
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Very Large Array (VLA)
• National Solar Observatory
• Owens Valley Radio Observatory
• Project BAMBI Amateur Radio Telescope
• South Africa Astronomical Observatory
• Space Telescope Science Institude (STScI)
• University of Hawaii
• University of Oregon
• University of Rochester
• Whately Observatory

Links to Other Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Pages

• Comet/Jupiter Collision Frequently Asked Questions Home Page (Texas A&M).
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Bulletin Board (University of Maryland).
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter Home Page (GSFC).
• EUVE/Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (University of California, Berkeley).
• Computer Simulations of the Jupiter-Comet Collision (MIT).
• Shoemaker-Levy9/Jupiter Collision (European Southern Observatory).
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center).

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