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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... young one . ” Ssssssst . “ They were watching a herd of cows at the bottom of the hill , and the young bull was strutting around . ” Sssssst . Bzzzzt ! Bzzzzzzt ! “ ' I wanna charge down the hill and make love to the first cow I run ...
... young . Without Jupiter , our Earth would still be a target for ten kilometer - diameter comet strikes at the rate of one per century instead of the present comfortable rate of one each hundred million years . “ Thirty seconds ! ” Gene ...
... young high school graduate . The year was in its spring , as was this incredibly strong , gentle man named George Shoemaker . A man of many talents and interests , George never forgot his childhood view of Halley's Comet . “ We had a ...
... young man would rush home to assist his parents in one way or another ; one college try was cut short by a near fatal motorcycle accident in which he fell on his head . Comatose for more than a week , he regained consciousness and ...
... young boy was on his way to becoming a scientist . A BEE MOVIE Gene was also on his way to becoming capable of some mischief . One day , when Gene was about ten , he scratched his own name in a bathroom mirror in his elementary school ...
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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 |