In the Jupiter-Comet Clash of 1994, Astronomers are the Big Winners

摘要

Jupiter has now emerged from the Sun's glare into the dark sky of pre-dawn. The giant planet still shows scars-stretched by Jovian winds for more than six months-from its battle with Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The comet lost the battle. Between then and now, with the media hype, the initial flush of excitement and the exhaustive and exhausting week-long crush of last July's observations behind them, planetary scientists have had some time to mull over their data.