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Gene Shoemaker
Gene Shoemaker () founded a new branch of planetary science that her termed "astrogeology," which revolutionized our understanding of the solar system and the process of planetary evolution. He was the first to produce conclusive evidence that planet Earth had been bombarded by asteroids throughout its formative history, and that there was a very real likelihood of such an event occurring in the future.
Any doubt that this might be another brand of doomsday speculation vanished in , when people worldwide watched such a cosmic spectacle from the safety of their homes and offices. Television stations broadcast live footage as Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 torpedoed into the giant planet Jupiter in an incendiary hail of 21 fragments. The largest of these, dubbed "fragment G" struck Jupiter with a force equivalent to six trillion tons of TNT, or about times the entire estimated nuclear arsenal of the world. The impact produced a fireball, rising km above the marbled cloud
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Shoemaker, Eugene Merle
(b. Los Angeles, California, 28 April, ; d. near Alice Springs, Australia, 18 July ), space science, astrogeology, studies of the populations of comets and asteroids, specifically those that could strike the Earth.
Shoemaker began a new science—the history of the solar system and the often violent interactions among the planets—called astrogeology. His early studies of lunar craters suggested that these features were the result of impacts, and that the crater record could provide an indication of the level of risk by impact to the Earth. These studies led to his training of astronauts for the Apollo program in the s. Shoemaker’s interests then turned from the effects of impact to the objects themselves, the comets and asteroids that do the impacting. This phase of his career reached its climax in July , when the comet he helped to discover, Shoemaker-Levy 9, collided with Jupiter in a cosmic and forceful demonstration of his ideas.
Early Life Gene
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer (–)
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, &#;– July 18, ) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and along with Edward Chao provided the first conclusive bevis of its origin as an impact crater. He was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research schema.
He was killed in a bil accident while visiting an impact crater site in Australia. After his death, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector uppdrag.
Early life and formal education
[edit]Shoemaker was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Muriel May (née Scott), a teacher; and George Estel Shoemaker, who worked in farming, business, teaching, and mo