Aeronautics and Space Reports Number 267: Comet Impacts Jupiter
Channel: NASA STI Program
Date: 2012-09-30

This video contains three different segments of computer generated simulations of the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter that will take place in July 1994. It includes interviews with Shoemaker and Levy, discussing pictures taken at Palomar Observatory, the comet's approach to Jupiter, fragment size, and the affects of the comet's impact on Jupiter and its atmosphere. The impact will be viewed by the Galileo spacecraft. Released June 1994.