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Shoemaker-Levy en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃu.meɪˌkɝ ˈlɛ.vi/ (US)
  • sho͞oʹmā-kûr' lĕʹvi (US)

Etymology

From the surnames of the astronomers Carolyn Shoemaker, Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, who discovered several comets.

Meanings

  1. Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, a comet which collided with Jupiter.
    • Astronomer Eugene Shoemaker reassured reporters even as the biggest fragment of Shoemaker-Levy was no "dinosaur killer". 1994, Astronomy Now:
    • Everything about last July's six-day-long collision of Jupiter and the twenty-one pieces that had made up Shoemaker-Levy was on the giant Jovian scale. 1994, The Michigan Alumnus, page 19:
    • Shoemaker-Levy was broken up into a string of pearls by a close encounter with Jupiter, and on their next orbit the pearls slammed into Jupiter one after the other in quick succession. 2012, Russell Gerald Johnston, Random Wisdom, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 462: