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Impact Jupiter - The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (Hardcover, Softcover Reprint Of The Original 1st Ed. 1995)
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Impact Jupiter - The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (Hardcover, Softcover Reprint Of The Original 1st Ed. 1995)
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On July 16, 1994 a world-shattering event occurred that would rivet
our attention for six explosive days and go on to make history as
the single most important celestial event of the century. Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, changing forever our
understanding of comets and cosmic cataclysms. Our own sense of
security would never be the same as the world witnessed fragment
after fragment of the comet bash into Jupiter with the collective
equivalent force of a 50-million-megaton bomb. David Levy,
co-discoverer of periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, shares his
once-in-several-lifetimes' story from the time of the discovery,
with Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker, of this unusual "squashed" comet
to the later shocking revelation of hearing that "their" comet was
destined to collide with Jupiter. Never in recorded history has a
comet created such a catastrophic event as smashing into a planet.
Impact Jupiter takes off where David Levy's earlier acclaimed book,
The Quest for Comets, left us. Magnificent photos of the impacts,
including superb color pictures, accompany David's poetic words,
vividly bringing to life his thrilling story. Savor the words of
one of the world's most celebrated amateur astronomers as he humbly
and eloquently opens the beauty of the heavens to all who are
curious.
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