Advertisement

Advertisement

Shoemaker-Levy 9

/ ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə liːvaɪ /

noun

  1. a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shoemaker-Levy 91

C20: after Carolyn Shoemaker (born 1929), Eugene Shoemaker (1928–97), and David Levy (born 1948), US astronomers, who discovered the orbiting fragments

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


shoemakershoepac