Imaging, Photometry, and Spectrophotometry of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Collision with Jupiter

这个项目是由亚利桑那大学、洛厄尔天文台、麻省理工学院和美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心的研究人员共同发起的四个协调运动中的一个。这些小组将在全球四个经度间隔的地点部署便携式高速CCD系统，目的是记录苏梅克-列维9号彗星不同亚核与木星碰撞的一系列划时代事件。观测的目的是获取木星在撞击前的几个波段的所有面图像，记录由伽利略卫星反射的光所看到的由来袭的火流星产生的闪光，记录由于撞击而产生的行星外观的变化，并记录受影响带和区域在行星恢复平衡时的演变。

9322449 Millis This project is one of four in a coordinated campaign that involves investigators from the University of Arizona, Lowell Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and NASA Ames Research Center. The groups will deploy portable, high-speed CCD systems to four sites spaced in longitude around the globe for the purpose of recording an epochal series of collisions of various subnuclei of Comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter. The objectives of the observations are to obtain images of all faces of Jupiter in several passbands immediately prior to the encounters, to record the flashes produced by the incoming bolides as seen in light reflected off the Galilean satellites, to document the changes produced in the planet's appearance as a result of the impacts, and to record the evolution of affected belts and zones as the planet settles back to equilibrium.