Shoemaker-Levy 9 Hitting Jupiter with Orbit Trails (2009)
2009 · Short film
Synopsis
This visualziation shows the major fragments of comet Showmaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter. The orbits are driven using ephemeris data. The impacts occurred over a series of about six Earth days which is why Jupiter (which rotates about once every Earth 10 hours) appears to be rotating so fast in this visualziation; time is is depicted at about 7 hours per second of animation. The comet fragments shown are: "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "k", "l", "n", "p", "p", "q", "q", "r", "s",…
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