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Eugene Merle Shoemaker - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 7th Aug, 2006 - 5:18am
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Post Date: 9th May, 2006 - 12:12pm / Post ID: #
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
I got the chance to watch a special on history channel about meteors. It sparked my interest in Gene Shoemaker, so I looked up some interesting information regarding him.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science and is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy. |
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Post Date: 7th Aug, 2006 - 5:18am / Post ID: #
Shoemaker Merle Eugene
Its been over ten years since shoemaker-levy hit Jupiter, but the images are still amazing! Here is a great site showing the impact this comet, or rather its fragments made hitting jupiter in 1994. Eugene Shoemaker died just three years after seeing is comet his the planet.
https://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/sl9/sl9.html
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