Comet D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker-Levy 9) Collision into Jupiter: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- January 1, 1993
- Declared end
- January 1, 1996
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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Description published by the archive
The impact of comet D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker-Levy 9), colloquially referred to as "SL9", into the planet Jupiter in July 1994 represented the first time in human history that people had discovered a body in the sky and were able to preict its impact on a planet more than a few seconds in advance. The event was observed by both spacecraft and ground-based observatories around the world.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.comet_sl9-jupiter_collision
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/