Impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter

The large image of Jupiter was taken by the Voyager Spacecraft during its flyby. The small image is from the Goddard Space Flight Center page for this event and shows the geometry of the impacts as viewed from earth. Click here for some other views. Click here for an image of the Red Spot and here for another view. Some facts about Jupiter.

Movies

Link to animations stored at JPL.

General information on comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

News

NASA appoints Near-Earth Object search committee.
Bombardment to continue.
Spacecraft report: HST, 29 Sep.
Spacecraft report: HST, 5 Aug.
Spacecraft report: Galileo observation of W impact.
Spacecraft report: Galileo Jail-Bar Image of Fragment K Impact.
Spacecraft report: Galileo, 1 Aug.
Spacecraft report: Galileo Playback schedule.
Spacecraft report: Ulysses, 1 Aug.
Spacecraft report: Ulysses.
Spacecraft report: Voyager 2, 1 Aug.
Spacecraft report: Voyager 2.
Spacecraft report: EUVE.
Click here for information on a lecture in August by Rob Landis (Space Telescope Institute).
Click here for information on other local astronomy club activities.
Some background on comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet team Biographies.
A list of fragment impact times.
Observed impact times.

Maps

Jupiter facing side of earth at impact times.
Impact geometry as seen from earth.
Impact geometry as seen from earth (zoomed).
Impact geometry as seen looking toward Jupiter's south pole.
Impact geometry as seen from Galileo.
Impact geometry as seen from Ulysses.
Impact geometry as seen from Voyager 2.
Comet orbit as seen from the sun.
Comet orbit projected into Jupiter's orbital plane.
South Pole at the time of fragment H impact.

Charts

Fragment ID chart: May 1994.
Fragment ID chart: Mar 1994.
Fragment ID chart: Jan 1994.
Chart of fireball trajectories.
Chart of eclipse of Jupiter's moons.
PostScript finder charts of the impact spot positions.

Some general images

Hubble Space Telescope views of the comet.
Ground-based views of the comet.
Composite view of Jupiter and the comet.
Jupiter's ring, IR view from IRTF.

Observations

Visual observations by Gary Frishkorn F3D (up to July 24).
Visual observations by Curtis Roelle S1C (up to July 26).
Radio observations by Grote Reber in Tasmania.
Radio observations by JPL.

Simulations

Impact simulation by NRL.

News Bulletins amd Press Conferences

ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #14 (The real final issue).
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #13
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #12.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #11.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #10.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #9.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #8.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #7.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #6.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #5.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #4.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #3.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #2.
ESO SL-9 News Bulletin #1.

Press conference at GSFC July 21
Press conference at GSFC July 20
Press conference at GSFC July 19

Sky and Telescope SL-9 News Bulletin July 29.
Sky and Telescope SL-9 News Bulletin July 23.
Sky and Telescope SL-9 News Bulletin July 18.

List of published papers.

Shoemaker-Levy 9 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A somewhat out-of-date but still very informative SL-9 FAQ from Texas A&M (Compiled by Pat Murphy, NRAO).

Some historical items

Pre-1992 Encounter Orbital Evolution of P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A Main-Belt Asteroidal Origin for P/Shoemaker-Levy 9?
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION Circular No. 5892
Time series of SL-9 positions relative to Jupiter.
A few items of historical interest.

Images and descriptions of the impacts

Synthesized polar view of spots from Palomar <===<<<
Color image of impact spots Kitt Peak
Images in multiple bands from Kitt Peak
Color image of impact spots by HST <===<<<
Infrared image of impact spots by IRTF <===<<<
Infrared image of impact spots by Keck <===<<<
Infrared image of impact spots by Wyoming <===<<<
Infrared composite of impact spots by AAT <===<<<
UV image of impact spots by HST <===<<<
IR images of impact spots by CalarAlto <===<<<
IR image of impact spots by AAT
Tauton Radio Observatons of Fragment Q Impacts
IR images of impact spots, U of Rochester <===<<<
IR images of impact spots, Pic Du Midi <===<<<
Visible(?) images of spots, Pic Du Midi <===<<<

Fragment A (21): Saturday 1994 July 16 15:59:40 (EDT)

Fragment B (20): Saturday 1994 July 16 22:54:13 (EDT)

IR spectra of IO during B impact, Las Campanas.
From sci.astro

Fragment C (19): Sunday 1994 July 17 03:02:14 (EDT)

Fragment D (18): Sunday 1994 July 17 07:47:00 (EDT)

Infrared (2.34 microns) ANU

Fragment E (17): Sunday 1994 July 17 11:05:31 (EDT)

Violet (3360 A) HST <===<<<
Violet (3360 A) and UV (1600 A) HST <===<<<
From sci.astro

Fragment F (16): Sunday 1994 July 17 20:29:21 (EDT)

Infrared (2.3 microns) CT <===<<<
From sci.astro

Fragment G (15, The big one): Monday 1994 July 18 03:28:32 (EDT)

Fragment H (14): Monday 1994 July 18 15:25:53 (EDT)

Fragment K (12): Tuesday 1994 July 19 06:18:32 (EDT)

Fragment L (11): Tuesday 1994 July 19 18:08:53 (EDT)

Fragment N (9): Wednesday 1994 July 20 06:20:02 (EDT)

Infrared (2.34 microns) ANU <===<<<
From sci.astro

Fragment P2 (8b): Wednesday 1994 July 20 11:11:55 (EDT)

Fragment Q2 (7b): Wednesday 1994 July 20 15:31:43 (EDT)

Fragment Q1 (7a): Wednesday 1994 July 20 15:59:10 (EDT)

Fragment R (6): Thursday 1994 July 21 01:25:56 (EDT)

Fragment S (5): Thursday 1994 July 21 11:10:22 (EDT)

Infrared (K band 0.75 microns) SAAO

Fragment T (4): Thursday 1994 July 21 14:03:45 (EDT)

Fragment U (3): Thursday 1994 July 21 17:48:30 (EDT)

Fragment V (2): Friday 1994 July 22 00:16:53 (EDT)

Fragment W (1): Friday 1994 July 22 03:57:36 (EDT)

Infrared (2.36 microns?) South Pole

Goodbye comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
Maybe not yet?
A "21 Gun Salute" to Jupiter

General Observations and discussions

Viewing with small telescopes

Questions and discussions

Some out of date observational material (perhaps useful for comparing to images)

Click here for some PostScript finder charts that show the impact spot positions.
Meridian crossing times for known spots.
Longitude of central meridian on Jupiter.
Longitudes of impact spots.

Other WWW pages and ftp sites

http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/SL9
http://hollebeek.hep.upenn.edu/SL9
http://observ.fi.edu/SL9
http://nscp.physics.upenn.edu/SL9
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/billa
http://ftp.netcom.com/pub/billa/billa.html
ftp://ftp.iglou.com/comet/images
ftp://ftp.rdt.monash.edu.au:/pub/jupiter-sl9
http://self.stanford.edu/comet
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/background.html
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/COMET.HTML
http://pluto.neosoft.com/
http://meteor.anu.edu.au/mssso-observations.html
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu:80/c1993e/ftp/pub/images
ftp://ftp.interaccess.com/Jupiter/">ftp
ftp://ftp.ru.ac.za:/pub/saao/images/">saao
ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/astro/SL9/images/recent
http://alfred1.u.washington.edu:8080/~roland/sl/sl.html
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/sl9-impact/impacts.htm
Another list of comet image sites
SL9 and Jupiter related PC software

About this Mosaic page...

See also the APL Digital Map of the U.S.

and the Central Maryland amateur astronomy page

Compiled from the Internet by

Ray Sterner (sterner@tesla.jhuapl.edu)

Space Oceanography Group of the Space Department

S1R ftp site statistics for SL9 as of 1994 Oct 4 19:39:45

Files transferred: 10,800
Total seconds: 28,703
Total bytes: 483,795,297
A histogram of SL9 ftp site activity (2 hour bins).