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  Amazon.de: Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact: English Books: David H. Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Eugene Shoemaker (1928-1997) is best known to the general public for his discovery, along with his wife, Carolyn, and author Levy, of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into the planet Jupiter in 1994.
Shoemaker had played an important role in the Ranger and Apollo programs, where he helped to determine the geology of the moon's surface and ascertained that landing craft and astronauts wouldn't sink knee-deep into the thick regolith (surface material) as other scientists had speculated.
As an advisor to NASA and trainer of astronauts in basic geology, Shoemaker was in the thick of the moon missions, but, as Levy describes, was exhausted by his work on them and in the 1970s returned to the study of cosmic collisions.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker was born in Los Angeles, California on April 28, 1928.
Eugene always wanted to go to the moon but was prevented from becoming an astronaut when he was diagnosed with Addison’s disease.
In 1997 during one of their annual trips to Australia, to examine impact craters, Eugene was killed in a car accident.
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 Eugene Shoemaker
Shoemaker died in a 1997 car accident in the Australian outback while on an annual study of asteroid impact craters.
Shoemaker was a key member of the 1985 working group that first studied the NEAR mission, defining its science objectives and designing a conceptual payload.
Tonight, the ashes of Eugene M. Shoemaker are to be launched in a memorial capsule aboard Lunar Prospector to the moon.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker was born on Apr 28, 1928 in Los Angeles, California.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker and Carolyn Jean Spellmann were married on Aug 18, 1951 in Chico, Butte Co., California.
William Shoemaker was born on Oct 11, 1766 in Bern Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.
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 Shoemaker, Eugene | Macmillan Space Sciences
Eugene Merle Shoemaker was instrumental in establishing the discipline of planetary geology.
Born in 1928, Shoemaker's early fascination with the Grand Canyon led him to recognize that the powerful tool of stratigraphy could be applied to unraveling the history of the Moon.
Shoemaker was part of a leading comet-hunting team that discovered comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and charted the object's breakup.
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Shoemaker was best known for his work on extraterrestrial impacts and for his later collaboration with his wife, Carolyn, in the study and discovery of comets.
Porco was a student of Shoemaker's when he was a professor and she was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Levy and the Shoemakers together in 1993 discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the spectacular comet that became unique in the history of science when it was torn apart by and and crashed into Jupiter in 1994.
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 Eugene Merle Shoemaker Summary
Shoemaker studied impact craters (craters created by the collision of an asteroid or comet and a planet) on both Earth and the Moon, as well as searched f...
American Astrogeologist 1928-1997 Eugene Merle Shoemaker was instrumental in establishing the discipline of planetary geology.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker)(April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science and is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
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 Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (1928-1997) and Caroline Shoemaker, neéSpellmann (1929-)
Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (1928-1997) and Caroline Shoemaker, neéSpellmann (1929-)
Eugene Shoemaker had hoped to travel to the Moon as an Apollo astronaut/geologist.
Following his death in a car accident, some of Eugene Shoemaker’s ashes were placed aboard Lunar Prospector, a spacecraft that was later intentionally crashed into the Moon; his are the first human remains resting on another world.
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 Eugene M. Shoemaker biography
Eugene Shoemaker, a geologist who shaped his science into a new form, astrogeology, and propelled it to the forefront in lunar and planetary exploration, was probably the 20th century's leading planetary scientist.
When spacecraft reached beyond the Moon, he focused on the satellites of the outer planets and on comets and asteroids, while enthusiastically and generously continuing to inspire, support, and guide the hundreds of scientists who are applying the methods he developed to whatever planets and moons come in view.
Eugene Shoemaker's well-lived life ended in a car crash in Australia in July 1997, while he and Carolyn once again, and with great joy, were reading the record of chance encounters between Earth's rocks and the rocks that travel the depths of space.
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 Eugene Shoemaker (1928-1997)
Born in Los Angeles, California, on 1928 April 28, Eugene Merle Shoemaker graduated from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena at the age of 19.
Together with the other observing programs at Palomar, the Shoemakers have ensured that Palomar recently became and is likely to remain the leading site for the discovery of asteroids, with currently more than 13 percent of asteroids that have been numbered having been found there.
A few months before the Shoemaker program was terminated came its "defining moment", with Gene receiving the thrill of his lifetime when some 20 components of one of those 32 comets were observed to crash into the planet Jupiter with astoundingly dramatic results.
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 Eugene Merle Shoemaker - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
'Eugene Merle Shoemaker' (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928andnbsp;- July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science.Born in Los Angeles, California, he is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
Shoemaker has ddne more than any other person to advance the idea that sudden geologic changes can arise from asteroid strikes and that asteroid strikes are common over geologic time periods.
He was set to be the first scientist to walk on the Moon but was disqualified due to a ddisorder of his adrenal gland.Coming to Caltech in 1969, he started a systematic search for Earth orbit-crossing asteroids, which resulted in the discovery of several families of such asteroids, including the Apollo asteroids.
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 SHOEMAKER EUGENE MERLE
He is survived by his wife; his son, Patrick Shoemaker and wife Paula Kempchinsky; his daughters Christine Woodard and Linda Salazar and her husband Fred; and grandchildren, Sean and Adrian Woodard and Stefani Salazar, and a sister, Maxine Heath.
EUGENE M. It was legend among planetary scientists that Eugene M. Shoemaker, a pioneer in the exploration of the Solar System, had longed to go to the Moon as an Apollo astronaut and study its geology firsthand.
The "burial" of one ounce of Eugene Shoemaker's ashes is a rare honour accorded to a member of the space community.
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Eugene Shoemaker at a stereoscopic microscope used for asteroid discovery
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 ;– July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science.
Shoemaker gained this insight after inspecting craters that remained after underground atomic bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site at Yucca Flats.
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 April 28 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Eugene Merle Shoemaker was an American planetary geologist.
Shoemaker initiated and vigorously promoted the intensive geologic training of the astronauts that made them able scientific observers and reporters on moon landings.
He was a major investigator of the imaging by unmanned Ranger and Surveyor satellites which, before any Apollo landing, revealed the nature of the Moon's cover of soil and broken rock that he named the regolith.
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 Amazon.fr : Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact: Livres en anglais: David H. Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Eugene M. Shoemaker, who died in an automobile accident in 1997, was a geologist who spent much of his career studying impact craters on the moon and Earth.
Shoemaker got his lifelong wish to see an impact when that comet struck Jupiter.
And his wish to go to the moon, thwarted by his health, was fulfilled when the spacecraft Lunar Prospector, carrying one ounce of his ashes, crashed onto the lunar surface five years to the week after the last traces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 disappeared.
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 Amazon.ca: Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact: Books: David H. Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The book's only real flaw is in it's extreme reverence for Shoemaker and the resultant unwillingness to dig for "dirt" in the process of profiling this colorful and contentious man, understandable considering how close Levy was to Shoemaker, and how close he remains to Shoemaker's wife Carolyn.
Shoemaker will be remembered as one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
Shoemaker's enthusiasm for geology was a key to his success and Levy concentrates on that, leaving the technical aspects to the bibliography.
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A year later, Levy would be by the Shoemakers' side again when their comet ended its four-billion-year-long journey through the solar system and collided with Jupiter in the most stunning astronomical display of the century.
Early in his training as a geologist, Shoemaker suspected that it wasn't volcanic activity but rather collisions with comets and asteroids that created most of the craters on the moon and most other bodies in the solar system.
Levy's explanation of the scientific reasoning that guided Shoemaker in his career up to this dramatic point--as well as his personal portrait of a man who found white-water rafting to be an easy way to relax--sets these fascinating events in a human scale.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928-1997) and Carolyn Spellman Shoemaker (1929 -) are scientists who have made many important discoveries in astronomy, finding many asteroids and comets.
Some of Eugene Shoemaker's ashes (1 ounce) were sent to the moon on Lunar Prospector in 1999 - his are the first human remains resting on another celestial body (Eugene had always wanted to go into space).
Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL-9) was a short-period comet that was discovered by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David H. Levy.
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 Shoemaker Eugene Merle 1928 Oral history interview with Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 1986 January 30 to 1988 September 8. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Shoemaker Eugene Merle 1928 Oral history interview with Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 1986 January 30 to 1988 September 8.
Oral history interview with Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 1986 January 30 to 1988 September 8.
Specific topics include Shoemaker's investigations of the geology of the Colorado plateau; doctoral studies at Princeton University in the mid-1950s; his identification of coesite at the Meteor Crater, Arizona; and the Ries formation in Bavaria, Germany; the development of lunar stratigraphic principles.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science and is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and D...
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 Memorials - January 27, 1999
Eugene Merle Shoemaker of Flagstaff, Ariz., distinguished astronomer and comet specialist, died July 18, 1987, in an automobile accident near Alice Springs, Australia.
With Dr. Thomas Gehrels, Eugene predicted such a bombardment of earth is a distinct possibility.
The Shoemaker Team (Dr. and Mrs.) is credited with the discovery of 32 comets and 1,125 asteroids.
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Baldwin Eugene Merle Shoemaker showed that the impact causes two shock waves creating a cavity and destroying the meteorite.
Shoemaker’s Astrogeology Branch of the U.S Geological Survey was in charge of creating a geologic map of the moon using stratigraphy, which is “the study of the sequence of layered rocks” among others.
NASA had other concerns such as if the surface of the moon would be able to sustain the weight of the landing vehicle.
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 Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science and is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
Its been over ten years since shoemaker-levy hit Jupiter, but the images are still amazing! Here is a great site showing the impact this comet, or rather its fragments made hitting jupiter in 1994.
Eugene Shoemaker died just three years after seeing is comet his the planet.
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 h24 The Chicxulub bolide crater
Otherwise, all the features could be, arguably, volcanic and before the 1980s they were referred to as cryptovolcanos.
However, in the 1960s, Eugene Merle (Gene) Shoemaker (1928-1997) noted that the cratered strata is overturned in the rim debris field.
This "bolide" explanation found corroboration when Shoemaker and Edward Ching-Te Chao discovered that fused-appearing crater derived Coconino quartz sandstone grains are natural coesite.
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