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To: Delta 21; SunkenCiv; red; PIF; metmom; All

If you are referring to Schumaker Levy, I think there were 19 strikes. How does a comet crash 19 times over a period of multiple minutes.


23 posted on 02/11/2022 8:44:38 PM PST by gleeaikin (,Question authority!)
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To: gleeaikin
In the (a?) previous encounter with Jupiter, the original comet (prediscovery) broke into fragments, Shoemaker–Levy 9 (with letters assigned to each fragment), but all the fragments remained more or less on the same trajectory as before. The fragments arrived for the impacts over a period of six days or so. At the link, the core of the story starts around the 40 minute mark.

24 posted on 02/12/2022 8:02:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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