Shoemaker-Levy 9 (1993e) Impact Bulletin Board and Archives
Recent and Upcoming Events
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IAU Colloquium 156, on the SL9-Jupiter impacts, will convene in
Baltimore, Maryland on 9-12 May 1995. The meeting is being co-hosted
by the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
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Proceedings from the ESO SL-9/Jupiter Workshop, held Feb 13-15, 1995
in Garching, Germany, are now available.
Archives
These directories contain information gathered before, during, and after
the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994. The files
have, for the most part, been contributed by active observers for use by
their colleagues.
The files in these directories are also accessible by direct (restricted)
login and FTP.
Available Files:
Please Note
The information in these directories is intended for planning
purposes only. All results should be considered tentative and are not for
quotation or attribution.
For more information on a particular article, please contact the originator.
- Introduction
- A brief introduction to the c1993e restricted account and
its directory structure
- c1993e account
procedures
- A brief file describing how to get login and FTP access to the
restricted account, with examples
- FTP How-to
- A recipe file describing how to download account files through
anonymous FTP, especially for those without much FTP experience
- Change Summary
- A list of changes and additions made to the contents of the account,
in reverse-chronological order
- Early Reports
- Observational reports received during impact week, up through 25 July,
inclusive.
Files are named by the location, with an extension consisting of
the date plus hours and minutes of EDT for the time the message was received
here.
- General Commentary
- Discussion and commentary on miscellaneous aspects of the collisions
- Appulses
- Files relating to appulses of stars from passage of SL 9 fragments
- 1992 Jupiter Encounter
- Reports on attempts to spot SL 9 during its previous peri-Jove
- Ephemeris
- Orbital elements and ephemerides
- History
- Commentary on the earlier history of SL 9
- Meetings
- Titles and abstracts (as available) for upcoming meetings
- Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous files about the encounter
- Observations
- Observational reports (pre-impact and from 26 July and later) and related
information, including IAU circulars, ancillary data, and observatory summaries
of observations during impact week
- Papers
- Lists of published papers, papers in press, and special editions;
submission information for special editions
- Predictions
- Predictions concerning various aspects of the 1994 collision
- Public Information
- Fact sheets and announcements of interest to or aimed at the general public
- Requests
- Specific requests from researchers for corroborating observations,
timing information, and such.
- Meetings
- Announcements, abstracts and proceedings for workshops and meetings about
the collision
- Images
- PostScript and GIF format images of the comet
- Comet Graphics
- Plots and graphs illustrating the geometry of the comet orbit as well
as the relative brightnesses and locations of the individual nuclei in
the train
- Impact Graphics
- Plots and graphs showing various views of the final approach to
Jupiter and the locations of the impacts
These files reside on a computer in the Department of Astronomy
of the University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
and are provided as part of the services of the Small Bodies Node
of the Planetary Data System.
Problems or questions can be directed to your friendly, neighborhood
programmer, Anne Raugh, raugh@astro.umd.edu.
Last update 17 March 1995