Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
At a glance
- Type
- Comet
- Distance
- Solar System
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- After 1900
- Colour
- White
- Feature
- Tail
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- In July 1994 its pieces crashed into Jupiter, the first collision of two Solar System bodies ever watched.
- Jupiter's gravity had torn it into more than 20 pieces before the crash.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q3076 · All space objects · All entries