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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world.
May 21, 2018 · Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (1928–97) An American geologist who founded the scientific study of impact cratering on Earth, the Moon, and on other solar system planets and their satellites, and who also pioneered the study of near-Earth comets and asteroids, often in collaboration with his wife Carolyn.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker of Flagstaff, Ariz., distinguished astronomer and comet specialist, died July 18, 1987, in an automobile accident near Alice Springs, Australia. He was 69. His wife and close collaborator in astronomical research for decades suffered broken bones and was hospitalized.
Jul 19, 1997 · Dr. Eugene Merle Shoemaker, who, with his wife, Carolyn, held a world record for the number of comets discovered, was killed yesterday in a car accident near Alice Springs, Australia. Mrs....
Overview. Eugene Merle Shoemaker. (1928—1997) Quick Reference. (1928–97) American planetary geologist. In 1952 he began to study Meteor Crater in Arizona, and became convinced that it and other terrestrial and lunar craters—which many believed to be volcanic—were impact features, especially after his discovery of coesite at terrestrial craters.
He was the founder of the study of planetary impact cratering on the Earth, Moon and planets. With his wife Carolyn he pioneered surveys of near-Earth asteroids and comets, culminating in the codiscovery with David Levy of Comet Shoemaker-Levy in 1993. Shoemaker was fatally injured in a car accident in Australia and died on July 18, 1997.
Founder, Astrogeology Research Program, USGS. Eugene "Gene" Shoemaker was a geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is perhaps best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
By Astrogeology Science Center. He once said he considered himself a scientific historian, one whose mission in life is to relate geologic and planetary events in a perspective manner. A modest statement coming from a legend of a man who almost single-handedly created planetary science as a discipline distinct from astronomy.
Gene Shoemaker, renowned both as a geologist and an astronomer, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Spaceguard Foundation, was killed instantly on the afternoon of July 18, when his car collided head-on with another vehicle on an unpaved road in the Tanami Desert northwest of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Jan 4, 1998 · Alan Dressler tribute to astronomers Martin Schwarzschild, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Lyman Spitzer Jr and Clyde W Tombaugh, who died in 1997 and together embodied astronomy's 20th-century...
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