Shoemaker-Levy 9

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Shoemaker-Levy 9 [ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə liːvaɪ]

(Astronomy & Space / Celestial Objects) a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995

[after Carolyn Shoemaker (born 1929), and Eugene Shoemaker (1928-97), and David Levy (born 1948), US astronomers, who discovered the orbiting fragments]

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