When Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in July 1994, many telescopes (both professional and amateur) were trained on the distant giant planet to give spectacular live views of the event.
Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 had fragmented and smashed into Jupiter.
1994 The first fragment from comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into Jupiter, creating a 1,930-kilometre-wide fireball.
The probe also witnessed the crash of comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9's crash into Jupiter's surface, and was subsequently crashed into the planet's surface to protect the moons from being infected by terrestrial bacteria.
Which planet was hit by the fragments of comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9, in 1994?
This was followed by the fragments of Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter in 1994.
In 1994, the first of 21 pieces of comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter, to the joy of astronomers awaiting the celestial fireworks.
The planet Jupiter is hit by large fragments of the comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9. Brazil win the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy on penalties.
In July 1994, Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 plowed into Jupiter, producing dark scars in the giant planet's atmosphere that were visible for weeks.
Researchers have found conclusive evidence that it was delivered by the dramatic impact of comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 in July 1994.
Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, led a team which predicted that when the comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994 the plumes of the collision would be visible on Earth.