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