Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an ImpactPrinceton University Press, 9.2.2021 - 319 sivua It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy would be by the Shoemakers' side again when their comet ended its four-billion-year-long journey through the solar system and collided with Jupiter in the most stunning astronomical display of the century. Not only did this collision revolutionize our understanding of the history of the solar system, but it also offered a spectacular confirmation of one scientist's life work. As a close friend and colleague of Shoemaker (who died in 1997 at the age of 69), Levy offers a uniquely insightful account of his life and the way it has shaped our thinking about the universe. |
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... field that connects astronomy to geology , George explained ; it's called astrogeology , and its heart and soul is a man named Eugene Merle Shoemaker , at the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) in Flagstaff , Arizona . That's the first I ...
... field that contained the new comet . Despite the brightening dawn sky they got a good image and submitted the first ... field's center . Gene then went back upstairs to continue setting up for the night's work , while Carolyn wondered ...
... field of sky . But since this was the next field on our program , we decided to stick with it . “ If you can't see the guide star at all , ” he said , “ then we'll go somewhere else . ” “ No , ” I answered , “ the star is faint , but I ...
... field . Somewhat tired from the previous night's observing , Philippe was napping in the car . Suddenly Carolyn stopped the steady movement of her stereomicroscope . She had just skidded past a fuzzy something that looked a bit like the ...
... field trips to a place south of Buffalo called Eighteen Mile Creek , where Gene reveled in the rich trilobite collections in the Devonian rocks . For several summers the Shoemaker family headed west from Buffalo for Torrington , Wyoming ...
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1948 | 27 |
A Revolution in Earth | 44 |
Impact | 58 |
19531960 | 69 |
19661968 | 101 |
19681969 | 113 |
19691970 | 126 |
19801995 | 184 |
19841995 | 197 |
1993 | 213 |
1994 | 225 |
19951997 | 241 |
1997 | 251 |
Epilogue | 262 |
Notes | 269 |