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Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #18: "Easy Comet, Easy Go"
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During this week, 20 years ago -- July 16-22, 1994
-- at least 21 remnants of a celestrial object designated as
Comet
P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with
Jupiter.
For those of you who checked in with Ronald [K4GET]
last night, you may remember that his first question
was about this Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact.
According to JPL,
"...this was the first
collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, and the
effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere have been simply
spectacular and beyond expectations." [Source]
Notwithstanding the impact it made on
Jupiter, the Comet also
shook up of the theories by earth geologists that dismissed extra-terrestrial
objects as not really
affecting us or our planet -- in the past or in our future.
One of theses geologists, who knew
differently, was Eugene
Shoemaker -- one of the Comet's co-discover in 1993.
But again, I digress....
So, accordingly, our 3 questions tonight are about comets in
general, and Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9,
in particular.
Please
give us your best answers from any of the 3
(reuseable) answers
of "A", "B", or "C"
(if
applicable!) for
each question.
So how much do YOU know about
comets?
++ "Mixed
Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #18: "Easy Comet, Easy Go"
++
Question
#1: Gene
Shoemaker's wife, Carolyn, was not only a co-discover of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, BUT also
holds the record for the most comet discoveries -- TRUE
or FALSE?
A. True, or
B. False
Carolyn Shoemaker is a remarkable woman and
an amazing astronomer; she holds the record for the most comet
discoveries.
She has found more than 800 asteroids and 32 comets.
Additional fame comes from her co-discovery, with husband Gene and David
Levy, of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993. (from Carolyn Shoemaker | USGS Astrogeology Science Center)
Question
#2: After Gene Shoemaker was killed
in a car accident on July 18, 1997 in Australia, one of his unfulfilled
wishes was later granted when his ashes aboard a lunar
spacecraft crashed into a crater on the moon in 1999
-- TRUE
or FALSE?
A. True, or
B. False
US
geologist Gene Shoemaker, killed in a 1997 car crash in Australia, ...
[became] the first person to be buried on another planet.
When the tiny Lunar Prospector
spacecraft crashes into a dark crater near the Moon's south pole on
Saturday (July 30, 1999), it will deposit onto the lunar surface the ashes of the
pioneering astro-geologist.
He was a legend among geologists. Almost on his own he
invented the science of the study of cosmic impacts and he played a key
role in training the Apollo moonwalkers to explore the Moon in a
scientific manner.
Early in his career he saw the Barringer meteor crater in
Arizona. He was certain it was made by a giant meteorite.
"At first, for a long while, nobody believed me, but
eventually I convinced them," he once remarked. (from
Moon burial for geologist)
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The
probe also carried a small amount of the remains of Dr. Eugene
Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July
18, 1997), astronomer and co-discoverer of Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9,
to the moon for a space burial.(from Lunar
Prospector - Wikipedia)
More details here: Eugene Shoemaker Ashes Carried on Lunar Prospector
Question
#3: Have YOU
ever seen a comet?
A. Yes, or
B. No, or
C. Sure! I actually owned, rode in, made
love in,
drove to school or work in, or wrecked a Comet
(manufactured by the Lincoln-Mercury
Division of Ford Motor Company
during the 1960s).
Everybody is a WINNER!!! (requested by Chuck [AE7ZZ])
[SOURCE: see links above]
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++
QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- Shortly before Professor Shoemaker
died he said:
"Not going to the Moon and
banging on it with my own hammer has been the biggest disappointment in
life."
[SOURCE: Moon burial for geologist]
Thank
you!
Shelley
[KF7TBA]
& LW [K7LWA]
K7LWA.INS@gmail.com
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