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Lowell House resident Jean M. Hammel '97 is surrounded by textbooks and class notes for an Orgo exam...
...understands why the points of impact are so dark -- a mystery that may take months to solve -- but it's clear that they are very high up in Jupiter's atmosphere, since the planet's familiar stripes can be seen through them. Astronomer Heidi Hammel of M.I.T. says the collisions will provide an opportunity to study the winds above Jupiter's cloud tops. "The mark left by the first impact is already starting to be spread around," she observes. There are also hints of seismic waves -- ripples thatmay have traveled all the way to a dense layer of liquid hydrogen...
...beamed down from the orbiting Hubble telescope. Finally, at about 8, the first pictures came up on the video screen -- and there, right at Jupiter's edge, was a bright splotch of light. "Somebody tell me that isn't one of Jupiter's moons," said an anxious Heidi Hammel, a planetary scientist from M.I.T...
...nearly 1,000 miles out into space and leaving a dark scar on the planet's familiar, brightly colored clouds. The assembled astronomers looked at the video screen for a second in silent disbelief -- then began cheering and toasting one another with swigs from champagne bottles. Said Hammel: "This is the kind of stuff I've been dreaming about...
...couldn't agree, though, on how big the pieces were, and thus how explosive the impacts would actually be. Just hours before the pictures came down, Levy had tried to downplay expectations. "Even if we see nothing spectacular," he argued, "this is still a scientifically important event." But when Hammel had brought the word -- and the champagne -- Levy and the Shoemakers could barely contain themselves. Said a beaming Eugene Shoemaker: "This is just the best possible news. And remember, this isn't even the biggest piece...