[meteorite-list] Comet Shoemake-Levy 9 20th Anniversary

[Ron Baalke]

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