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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... Planets : 1994 225 Chapter 21 New Challenges : 1995–1997 241 Chapter 22 Dr. Shoemaker , I Presume : 1997 251 Epilogue 262 Notes 269 Selected Bibliography 285 Index 297 PRE FACE This was the noblest Roman of them all viii Contents.
... planets . I stood at one end of the coffee room , he at the other , but with a laugh that could be heard for blocks , Gene could not be missed in such a crowd . We made eye contact , and then he pointed toward me as if we were old ...
... planet we live on , and the story I have to tell will show how he did this . As youthful experiences and indiscretions shape all of us , the book's early chapters show how Gene's school and college days set him on the track to ...
... planet Pluto , ' and Bart Bok , the scientist of the Milky Way — for helping frame my thoughts as to what a biography should accomplish . ? Art Boehm provided a careful reading of the original draft of the manuscript for this biography ...
... Planet Pluto ( Tuscon : University of Arizona Press , 1991 ) . 2. Ibid . The Man Who Sold the Milky Way : A Biography of Bart Bok ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1993 ) . SHOE MAKER BY LEVY xvi Acknowledgments.
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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 |