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Number 190 (Story #1), August 16, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

DIRECT IMAGES OF THE SHOEMAKER-LEVY IMPACT at Jupiter were recorded by the Galileo spacecraft last month and are just now being processed, owing partly to the antenna problems plaguing the Galileo mission. An image of fragment W's impact on July 22 will be released soon and is expected to clearly show an explosion. Galileo's detector was the only telescope in a position to take such direct pictures. A NASA meeting this fall will bring together observations and theories from many institutions. (The New York Times, 16 August 1994.)