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SL9



Credit : F. Colas, OMP/IMCCE/CNRS
Film of 45 seconds made ​​with the telescope 1m Pic du Midi 19 July 1994.


Opposite the planet Jupiter during the fall of pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The fall of the first pieces of comet left bright spots at high latitudes. On the limb right, we are witnessing the fall of a new piece that raises a huge amount of dust appearing bright images.