Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: The backstory and its impact

Over six dramatic days in July 1994, a shimmering train of ice-encrusted particles slammed into Jupiter, the solar system’s largest and most massive planet. Like a celestial string of opalescent pearls, they impacted its swirling atmosphere with the explosive equivalence of 10 million megatons of TNT, thousands of times more energetically potent than Earth’s entireContinue reading “Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: The backstory and its impact”
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