metorites that came from the planet Jupiter about ten or more years ago. Where to...

walterchoate120 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008, 10:24 PM

...find info about them? TY. Yes, I think there were 20 meteorites headed for earth about 10 or more years ago at 220,000 miles an hour; but something happened & they missed earth, then there was really never anything heard about them. Could someone please tell me where I might find some research information about them would be very appreciated. TY.

Michael Steen · #2 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 01:08 AM

Could you be thinking about comet Shoemaker-Levy? It was a string of comets that struck Jupiter in 1994.
It was never headed to Earth, however. Nor could meteorites ever have come FROM Jupiter; it has no solid rocky mass to strike a meteorite from.

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