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The great comet crash : the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter

Title: The great comet crash : the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter / edited by John R. Spencer and Jacqueline Mitton.
Publication: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Description

ix, 118 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 28 cm

Subject

Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet > Collision with Jupiter

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Foreword / Gene Shoemaker and Carolyn Shoemaker -- 1. Introduction / Jacqueline Mitton -- 2. A Comet Like No Other / Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene M. Shoemaker -- 3. The Path To Destruction / Brian G. Marsden -- 4. The Giant Target / John R. Spencer -- 5. Bangs or Whimpers? / Kevin Zahnle -- 6. The International Observing Campaign / Michael F. A'Hearn -- 7. The String of Pearls / Harold A. Weaver and David Jewitt -- 8. The Great Crash / John R. Spencer and John H. Rogers. Impact week / John R. Spencer. A typical impact / John R. Spencer. The healing process / John R. Spencer. The amateur perspective / John H. Rogers -- 9. Wiser after the Event? / H. Jay Melosh -- 10. What if?... / Clark R. Chapman.

ISBN

0521482747 (hardcover)

LCCN

95042372

OCLC

33334792
ocm33334792

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Columbia University Libraries