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Mountains have finally stopped hailing down on Jupiter, and the debris from their catastrophic impacts has started to settle. Here on Earth, the information superhighway is coming unclogged as Internet users relax their manic electronic search for comet-crash pictures. And except for an observing session next week and another in late August, the Hubble Space Telescope is moving on to view other heavenly objects...
Thought Harvard astronomers by and large have not joined in the massive collaboration of research into last week's collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, the event was first predicted more than a year ago by University researchers, according to those at the Center for Astrophysics...
After researchers in the Southwest first sighted the comet in March 1993, it was observed at Harvard's Mass. The sighting was the first after the initial confirmation, Marsden said...
...said that, according to his calculations, the comet has been orbiting Jupiter since at least the early 1970s...
...eyes are on Jupiter as the comet bombardment begins...