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Loading contentA comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.
comet:shoemaker-levy-9Dataset membership
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How Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
A periodic comet orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission.
Periodic comet — 19P/Borrelly.
A long-period comet that was widely visible to the naked eye in 1997.
A comet that passed very close to Earth in 1996.
A long-period comet discovered in 2020 that became a bright naked-eye object in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
A periodic comet (109P/Swift–Tuttle) that is the parent body of the Perseid meteor shower.
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