Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) was a comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994, providing the first direct observation of the collision of two solar system objects, not including collisions involving Earth and other objects. This generated a large amount of coverage in the popular media, and SL9 was closely observed by astronomers worldwide.
SL9 was in pieces ranging in size up to 2 kilometers in diameter. These fragments collided with Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 and July 22, 1994, at a speed of approximately 37 miles per second. The prominent scars from the impacts could be seen on Jupiter for many months after the impact, and observers described them as more easily visible than the Great Red Spot.
But what if it's all a lie? What if the entire spectacle was engineered as a distraction? Almost every telescope on Earth was focused on Jupiter for those 7 days, which makes you wonder -
What was going on with Uranus for that week? What was taking place that was so important to distract everyone's attention to the other side of the solar system? A space battle? Liftoff of a giant freaky mothership? The opening of an ultra-top-secret wormhole to the marshmallow nebula?
We'll probably never know. Scary, yes.
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