Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
"It's coming again to Jupiter this July and it's actually going to hit the planet"
"This had absolutely no similarity with any other comet that any of us had seen before. Instead of being an ordinary comet with a tail stretching out, it looked as if someone had stepped on it.
"Comets are supposed to orbit the sun, this one was found orbiting Jupiter... and is coming again to Jupiter this July and it's actually going to hit the planet."
Comet discoverer David Levy talks about finding Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with husband and wife Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker, while professor David Hughes of Sheffield University speculates about what will happen when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hits Jupiter in July 1994.
Plus what was happening among the stars and planets in July 1994.
This is a programme from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1994.
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