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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 3 Mar 1997 00:36:02 GMT
In article <[email protected]> Terence
Christopher Platt writes:
> OK - so what was exploding when comet Shoemaker-Levy hit
> Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995?
> [email protected] (Terence Christopher Platt)
In article <[email protected]> Jim Spalding
writes:
> The excellent example of comet Shoemaker-Levy, burning up
> & exploding on impact with Jupiter.
> spalding's <[email protected]>
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What was plumed outward when Shoemaker-Levy struck the surface of
Jupiter was NOT so much the comet, which in any case is not a
massive meteor but mostly frozen water, but the surface of
Jupiter, which as you know is not solid. Drop a rock in a pond
and you see the same thing.
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