#sl9 — Public Fediverse posts
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30 years ago #OTD the International Astronomical Union Circular http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05800/05800.html first predicted the impact of comet #SL9 into #Jupiter a year later with the immortal words about the expected minimum distance from the center of the planet: "Delta_J will be only 0.0003 AU (Jupiter's radius being 0.0005 AU) on 1994 July 25.4."
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We present a retrospective analysis of Earth-based mid-infrared observations of #Jupiter capturing the aftermath of the impacts by Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 (henceforth #SL9) in July 1994 and the #Wesley impactor in July 2009: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01347