When to Use the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jupiter Impact 3D Explorer
Open the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jupiter Impact 3D Explorer when you want a fast, real-dates answer to how a comet can be torn apart by a planet's own gravity, and how big the resulting impacts on Jupiter actually were.
Sessions this explorer fits
Students and teachers explaining tidal disruption and the Roche limit, readers who remember the summer of 1994 and want the real numbers behind Fragment G's impact, and anyone curious how astronomers predicted a cometary impact before it happened all get a direct answer here.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are learning the Roche-limit threshold itself in the abstract, which is on the Roche Limit 3D Explorer; or watching a deliberate, human-made impact test instead of a natural historical one, which is on the DART Asteroid Deflection 3D Explorer. Walk through the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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