Comet Collision Causes Dent On Jupiter Scientists said last week that a comet had slammed in to the planet Jupiter, leaving a scar the size of the Pacific Ocean. Hal Levison, a planetary scientist ...

Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

A new hypothesis suggests that the breaking apart and eventual collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – the first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter ...

In July 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter after breaking apart into many pieces. ... Shoemaker-Levy 9, in March, 1994, four months before its collision with Jupiter.

Two astronomers speculate that a cosmic collision as powerful as the one that many scientists believe killed off all the dinosaurs on Earth 65 million years ago may take place on the planet Jupiter… ...

Take that, Jupiter!The largest planet in the solar system just got whacked by an asteroid or a comet, and some intrepid stargazers have captured the planet's latest collision on camera.

A shattered comet _ some of its pieces perhaps 2 or 3 miles in diameter _ is racing toward a July collision with the planet Jupiter. Search. Subscribe. Manage profile. Donate.

The strafing of Jupiter by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet left as big a trail across cyberspace as it did on the face of the solar system’s biggest planet.The extraterrestrial extravaganza gave the ...

Jupiter Collision With Comet or Meteor Captured by Amateur Astronomer. By Slate Video Staff. Sept 12, 2012 5:56 PM. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images. Tweet Share Share Comment ...

The first piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy is expected to hit Jupiter about 4 p.m. today. It’s a small piece, however, and not likely to create much fuss on the the huge planet’s surface. A ...