Eugene Shoemaker dead in Australian auto crash

EUGENE SHOEMAKER, a renowned planetary scientist and a discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that plowed into Jupiter in July 1994, died Friday in a two-car accident near Alice Springs, Australia. He was 69. An expert in meteor impact craters, Shoemaker took part in science missions from Ranger to...

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