Shoemaker-Levy 9
/ (ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə liːvaɪ) /
noun
a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
Word Origin for Shoemaker-Levy 9
C20: after Carolyn
Shoemaker (born 1929), Eugene
Shoemaker (1928–97), and David
Levy (born 1948), US astronomers, who discovered the orbiting fragments