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February 8, 1994 11:00 AM (EST)
News Release Number: STScI-1994-13
Hubble Space Telescope view of a Comet on a Collision Course with Jupiter
An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release
These images of Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 (1993e) fragments were made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cometary chunks are expected to plunge into Jupiters atmosphere in July 1994. The comet was torn into numerous pieces by the massive planet's gravitational pull as it passed by Jupiter in summer 1992.