the seventh major impact of comet bricklayer - series 9 was to pass just after midnight , completing a line of crater - shaped skyward of swirling gasses gas and pieces thousand of miles down . " it hit saturn as a string of machine - gunner holes " said eugene shoemaker , an officer at the lowell telescope in flagstaff , kasich . , who helped discovering the comet every year .
The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.