The final major piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was to hit just after midnight, completing a ring of crater-like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across. "It hit Jupiter like a string of machine-gun bullets" said Eugene Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., who helped discover the comet last year.
the final major piece of comet shoemaker levy 9 was to hit just after midnight completing a ring of crater like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across it hit jupiter like a string of machine gun bullets said eugene shoemaker an astronomer at the lowell observatory in flagstaff ariz who helped discover the comet last year