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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... returned . For about three minutes , Gene could relax as I guided the exposure . We chatted casually . These three - or four - minute chats were extremely useful times for us . While I can't recall what we talked about during this ...
... returned to our eighteen - inch telescope dome . With observing unlikely that night , 4 P.M. was the slow part of the afternoon . I continued working on my cloudy - day activity of writing a book called The Quest for Comets . Gene was ...
... returned to the observatory . The sky was hopelessly cloudy , so there was no chance of rephotographing the new comet ourselves . I called Jim Scotti , a close friend who was that night observing with the Spacewatch camera on Kitt Peak ...
... returned to the eighteen - inch . Because the night was stormy , we brought our music downstairs ; it was playing Beethoven's first symphony . It was time to call Jim . He picked up the phone and began to clear his throat . “ Jim , " I ...
... returned to Buffalo with Gene and Maxine . Gene entered fourth grade at the Practice School in Buffalo . FIRST COLLECTIONS In 1935 , in the middle of this confusing period , Muriel gave her seven - year - old son her father's set of ...
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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 |