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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Meets Jupiter
The fate of Shoemaker-Levy 9 was actually far worse, as the orbit of the comet/s was destined to send the objects into the atmosphere of Jupiter!
The impacts occurred in July, 1994, but on the dark side of Jupiter. The actual impact into the atmosphere of comets traveling at 60 km sec-1, was not visible to us here on Earth..
Nevertheless, this provided a unique opportunity to investigate the atmosphere of Jupiter….