Table of Contents

Introduction
Main Contents:
1. What Is a Comet?
2. The Motion of Comets
3. The Fragmentation of Comets
4. The Discovery and Early Study of Shoemaker-Levy 9
5. The Planet Jupiter
6. The Final Orbit of Shoemaker-Levy 9
7. The Collisions
8. How Can These Impacts and Their Consequences Be Studied?
9. What Do Scientists Expect to Learn from All of This?
Appendices
A. Comparative Tables
B. The K-T Event
C. The Probability of Collisions with Earth
Acknowledgments

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Text by Ray L. Newburn, Jr.
Hypertext version by Jeff Foust
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