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Shoemaker-Levy 9's 10th Anniversary

Posted by timothy on from the gifts-of-tinfoils-hats-are-appropriate dept.

Chuck1318 writes "July 16 is the 10th anniversary of the first impact of pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on the planet Jupiter. The Planetary Society is marking this occasion with a call for applications for Shoemaker grants to fund "amateur and underfunded professional observers anywhere in the world." Shoemaker-Levy 9 created impact features on Jupiter that were larger than the Earth and helped stimulate the search for possible earth-impacting objects."

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  1. Re:Thank you, Jupiter! by robvangelder · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wasn't the 1907 Siberia impact actually a Tesla experiment gone horribly wrong?