Could you elaborate? Which of Aristotle’s idiocies was disproven by the comet fragments crashing into Jupiter?
Aristotle’s claim that stones don’t fall from the sky; even though his underlying basis of belief had been abandoned (a sphere with holes in it, orbiting the Earth the holes let the light from outside twinkle in), the idea that one celestial body can just barrel on into another body had been pushed off into an early period, the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment, which was comfortably billions of years in the past, never to be repeated. Even the fact that meteorites have killed people and animals continues to be widely denied, and there’s still a small, loud, and kinda angry lynch mob that is after the Alvarez model.