This is the way the world ends
not with a bang, but a whimper. - T.S. Eliot
This may be how worlds end, but certainly not comets, as the following images of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with Jupiter demonstrate.
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Galileo - Fragments K, N, W
[Updated: 05 Dec 1994]
Hubble - Fragments A, C, E, G, K, P, Q,
R, W [Updated: 17 March 1995]
ESO - Fragments A, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, R, S
[Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Calar Alto - Fragments A, C, D, E, F, G, H,
K, Q, post-impact [Updated: 06 March 1995]
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring -
Fragments C, D, G, K, N, R, Dark Ring [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Teide -
Fragments A, H, L, Q [Updated: 17 Mar 1995]
Anglo-Australian Telescope - Fragments A,
C, G, H, R, V, W [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
South African Astronomical Obs. -
Fragments A, C, E, G, H, Q, S [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
SPIREX - Fragments A, C, E, G, H, K, L,
N, Q, R, W [Updated: 26 July 1994]
Whately - Fragments A, C, E, F, H, K,
L [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
McDonald - Fragments A, C, D, E, F, G, H, L,
Q, R, S [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Apache Point - Fragments D, E, G, K,
L [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Cerro Tololo - Fragments A, D, E,
F [Updated: 20 July 1994]
NASA IRTF - Fragments A, C, E, G, H, K, L, P, Q,
R [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
NASA NSFcam - Fragment C [Updated:
20 July 1994]
Keck - Fragments A, C, E, G, H,
R [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Kitt Peak - Early comet images and
Fragments B, D, G, H, Q, R,
S [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Lick - Fragments A, C, E, F, G, H, L, V, and
post-
impacts [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
La Palma - Fragments A, F, G, H,
L [Updated: 07 March 1995]
Grove Creek - Fragments C, G,
N [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Big Bear - Fragments R,
V [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
GEA - Fragments A, G, H, K, L, R,
V [Updated: 31 Aug 1994]
Mt. Wilson - Fragment H, U [Updated:
26 July 1994]
Mt. Palomar - Fragment L, post-
impacts [Updated: 07 March 1995]
University of Hawaii - Fragments H, K,
R [Updated: 28 July 1994]
University of Rochester - Fragments A, C,
E [Updated: 28 July 1994]
Pic-du-Midi - Fragments G, H, K, L,
Q [Updated: 04 August 1994]
Pre-impact images [Updated: 07 March 1995]
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Astronomy
Effelsberg Radio Observations of the Great Comet Crash
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