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DRAMATIC IMPACT OF H-FRAGMENT OBSERVED AT LA SILLA
This image was obtained with the TIMMI instrument at the ESO 3.6-metre
telescope on July 18, 1994, 20:11 UT. It shows the rising plume above
the impact site of fragment H of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The image
was made in the 9.1 - 10.4 micron band in the far-infrared region.
The surface brightness of this plume was about 50 times that of the
Jupiter disk. The temperature was measured as more than 300 K.
The observers were Tim Livengood (NASA), Ulli Kaeufl (ESO), Benoit Mosser
and Marc Sauvage (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France).
This is ESO PR Photo SL9J/94-13. It may be reproduced, if credit
is given to the European Southern Observatory.