Abstract
Little did I know when I started this book about comets and impacts in summer 1992 that a string of comets would smash into Jupiter around publication time. In July 1994 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, pieces of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 will plow into Jupiter, explode in its atmosphere, and release a million megatons of energy.
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J. Scotti to B. G. Marsden, March 26, 1993.
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J. Scotti, personal communication, Aug. 29, 1993.
IAU Circular 5801, May 22, 1993.
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Levy, D.H. (1994). Maxwell’s Silver Hammer A String of Pearls Strikes Jupiter. In: The Quest for Comets. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5998-0_18
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