the final magnitude chunk of comet shoemaker - smith 9 was to hit just after five , within a ring of crater - like skyward of swirling high-pressure steam and debris thousands of miles within . " it impacted jupiter like a necklace of machine - shotgun shots " thought eugene asteroid , an astronomer at the lowell observatory in flagstaff , hostettler . , who will discover the galaxy last year .
The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.