Comet shoemaker

By BPride13

  • Before It striked

    The gravitation pull of Jupiter was pulling the comet towards it this time(1929-1972)

  • Comet Was Broken

    Steve Fentress and astronomer said that the comet was broken into pieces in july 7 before it striked in Jupiter

  • First time spotted

    Three veteran comet discoverers Eugene, Carolyn Shoemaker, and David Levy first spotted Shoemaker Comet in March 1993

  • Plumes

    The comet sent plumes high in the atmosphere. This were hot "bubbles" of gas through out the sky

  • 21 comet fragments

    First 21 fragments hit Jupiter

  • Shoemaker Comet Collied

    Shoemaker-Levy 9 collied with Jupiter over 5.6 days that had 22 fragments

  • First Collision of two Solar system bodies

    Once the collision happened it was the first two solar system bodies to ever do so.

  • Last Fragment

    The last fragment hit jupiter

  • Jupiter's ripples

    Images captured of Jupiter revealed ripples in the main ring. The entire ring was titled 1.24 miles after the impact.

  • Comet inspires movies

    Comet collision enspires movies made in Hollywood in the late 1990s named Armageddon and Deep Impact.

  • Dark spot

    A large dark spot equal to the size of a major ocean was seen on jupiter

  • Hit again ???

    Something hit Jupiter again

  • Two decades later

    Nearly two decades after the impact the New Pluto Spacecraft still detected disturbanes in the ring.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope recorded the comet that had formed a train of 21 icy fragments over 710,000 miles