Transcription: When Carolyn Shoemaker examined the photographs two days later, she found a very strange object, described later in the Bulletin of the International Astronomical Union as a chain of comet cores spread across an orbit and veiled in a common sheath with a short tail. The comet became known officially as Shoemaker-Levy 9, and analysis of the orbit by Brian Marsden explained why it had been disrupted. The cause was the gravitational pull of Jupiter. Marsden also found that the comet would make one more orbit of Jupiter, moving in an eccentric path, and then in July 1994 it would crash into the pl ... File Comment Made in Intimate Arts
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