单词 | shoemaker-levy 9 |
释义 | Shoemaker-Levy 9 in British English (ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə liːvaɪ) noun a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995 Word origin C20: after Carolyn Shoemaker (born 1929), Eugene Shoemaker (1928–97), and David Levy (born 1948), US astronomers, who discovered the orbiting fragments |
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