Impact Jupiter

On July 16 1994 a world-shattering event occurred that would rivet our attention for six explosive days and go on to make history as the single most important celestial event of the century. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter changing forever our understanding of comets and cosmic cataclysms. Our own sense of security would never be the same as the world witnessed fragment after fragment of the comet bash into Jupiter with the collective equivalent force of a 50-million-megaton bomb. David Levy co-discoverer of periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 shares his once-in-several-lifetimes story from the time of the discovery with Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker of this unusual squashed comet to the later shocking revelation of hearing that their comet was destined to collide with Jupiter. Never in recorded history has a comet created such a catastrophic event as smashing into a planet. Impact Jupiter takes off where David Levys earlier acclaimed book The Quest for Comets left us. Magnificent photos of the impacts including superb color pictures accompany Davids poetic words vividly bringing to life his thrilling story. Savor the words of one of the worlds most celebrated amateur astronomers as he humbly and eloquently opens the beauty of the heavens to all who are curious.