Meaning of Shoemaker-Levy | Babel Free

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Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, a comet which collided with Jupiter.

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“Everything about last July's six-day-long collision of Jupiter and the twenty-one pieces that had made up Shoemaker-Levy was on the giant Jovian scale.”

“Astronomer Eugene Shoemaker reassured reporters even as the biggest fragment of Shoemaker-Levy was no "dinosaur killer".”

“Shoemaker-Levy was broken up into a string of pearls by a close encounter with Jupiter, and on their next orbit the pearls slammed into Jupiter one after the other in quick succession.”

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