Todd Shoemaker

There is the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker.

Must have been a very interesting day in the Shoemaker house.

Unquestionably the highlight of 1994 was the collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter.

This event marked one of the more spectacular results of a detailed, long term telescopic survey of the night sky at Palomar Observatory, California, by United States Geological Survey (USGS) geologist Eugene M. Shoemaker and two volunteers, Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy.

Witness please, Eugene Shoemaker, who, diligently, from a young boy decided he wanted to make maps of celestial bodies.

For example, ground observations conducted under the Near Earth Object program detected the Shoemaker Levy 9 comet in 1993 and predicted its impact upon Jupiter in July 1994.

CARA apos s South Pole Infrared EXplorer (SPIREX) telescope was able, because of its unique location, to image more of the impacts of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter than any other instrument.

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