Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, ten years on

[ToSeek]

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: A Decade Later (http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1305_1.asp)


This week marks the 10th anniversary of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting the clouds of Jupiter. Here Sky & Telescope contributing editor and SL9 codiscoverer David Levy reflects on some of the events surrounding the Great Comet Crash.

[kucharek]

That reminds me that is some time ago that Jim Scotti was the last time here on the BABB.
The SL-9 impact was one of the first gib WWW shows.

Harald

[EFossa]

I remember watching it on CNN :o :o They announced the detection of the first impact from a large ground based telescope.

[ritko1]

I remember watching it on the news as well. It's amazing it's been that long. It seems like only a few years ago.

[ToSeek]

I remember watching it on the news as well. It's amazing it's been that long. It seems like only a few years ago.

I was thinking the same thing - it definitely doesn't seem like ten years.

[Harvestar]

(mentioned this in another thread too)

That night was the first time I ever looked through a telescope at Jupiter. (or rather anything else than the moon)

[Brady Yoon]

So being stuck in a vacuum means certain, though not instant death?

[Reverend J]

I remember that night, I was at the Star Hill inn, in New Mexico (a great place to go) The second night we (my family) were there Jupiter was rotating around so you could see the spots on the planet. I was debating with a guy who thought that we wouldn't be able see anything from Earth, but I was convinced that we could. So we made a friendly wager of 5 bucks and I let him look first. So we looked through the telescope and said "Well, I'll be damned" and he handed me 5 bucks :D

Besides winning the $5 to me it was really special to see something I pretty much know I won't ever see again in my lifetime (unless I achieve immortality) Also it really got the whole world involved in astronomy, albeit briefly.

Reverend J

[Tensor]

So being stuck in a vacuum means certain, though not instant death?

Wrong thread, Brady?

I can't believe that it's been ten years. Of course, I have a hard time accepting that my youngest will graduate HS this year, after all, I'm only 28, or so my brain tells me. :wink: