Transcription: On March 25, 1993, Carolyn Shoemaker looked at a strange fuzzy object on photographs that David Levy and Jean Shoemaker had taken. She commented that it looked like a squashed comet, and this was the first anyone knew about the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. By the time it had been discovered by the Shoemakers and David Levy, the comet had been torn into 22 fragments by the immense gravitational forces of Jupiter. In July 1992, the comet passed within 13,000 miles of Jupiter's cloud tops. It passed so close that Jupiter's tidal pole broke the comet into 22 pieces, looking like pearls on a string. Eac ...
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