Twenty years ago today, the first fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter. The remaining 20 fragments of the comet proceeded to hit Jupiter over the following 6 days. I had created a Comet SL9 website in June 1994, and ended up posting over 1,000 impact images to the site. Back then, websites were relatively unknown and somewhat of a novelty. The Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts became the first big Web event, and was key in raising the awareness of websites to the mainstream public, which we now take for granted today.
My Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 website is still around. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9 Ron Baalke ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
