Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team and NASA
Tomorrow will mark three decades since 21 fragments from the remains of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (which broke apart in July of 1992) began striking the planet Jupiter...with the celestial event occurring from July 16 to July 22 in 1994.
It was cool seeing a new image of Jupiter with a freshly-formed impact site in its southern hemisphere on the front page of the Los Angeles Times newspaper each day during that one-week span 30 years ago. The summer of 1994 was a tumultuous time for me, personally-speaking (I won't elaborate), and I gotta hand it to the cosmos for allowing this planetary fireworks show to provide some much-needed distraction during that period of time.
Happy Monday!
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