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Born May 22, 1948 (age 78) • Montreal
Subjects Of Study Trojan asteroid • comet • Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
Ultraviolet image of Jupiter showing the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9, July 21, 1994.
Jupiter's southern hemisphere
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Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer
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Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist
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Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
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James Peebles
American physicist
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer
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Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer
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Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
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John Bainbridge
English astronomer
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Pierre Mechain
French scientist
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Giovanni Battista Donati
Italian astronomer
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Alexis Bouvard
French astronomer
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Wilhelm, Freiherr von Biela
Austrian astronomer
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Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin
American astronomer

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