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Courtesy of H.A. Weaver, T.E. Smith (Space Telescope Science Institute) and J.T. Trauger, R.W. Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and NASA/NSSDC
The crash of a comet into a planet like the 1993 crash of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter is a once in a millennium event!