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VOLUME 60 (1994) | ISSUE 7 | PAGE 481
Collision of the comet with Jupiter: explosion in an inhomogeneous atmosphere
The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in July of 1994. The theory of powerful explosions in an inhomogeneous atmosphere is used to interpret the first observations of bursts of optical and IR emission and bursts of rf emission in the decameter range accompanying the stopping of the fragments of the comet in the Jovian atmosphere. These observational results may constitute the first experimental confirmation of this explosion theory. © 1994 American Institute of Physics.