undoubtedly stellafane ' s most ardent partisans is david g . levy , co - comet with f . eugene bricklayer of a comet name for the two that broke apart in 1994 as it was pointed toward jupiter , forming fireworks visible from io .
The Shoemaker-Levy comet was discovered by Shoemaker, his wife, Carolyn, and an astronomer David H. Levy.