"Shoemaker-Levy" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈʃu.meɪˌkɝ ˈlɛ.vi/ [US]
enPR: sho͞oʹmā-kûr' lĕʹvi [US] Etymology: From the surnames of the astronomers Carolyn Shoemaker, Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, who discovered several comets. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Shoemaker-Levy
  1. Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, a comet which collided with Jupiter. Wikipedia link: Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, David H. Levy#Comet discoveries Categories (topical): Astronomy
    Sense id: en-Shoemaker-Levy-en-name-zKqpD~Io Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1994, The Michigan Alumnus, page 19:",
          "text": "Everything about last July's six-day-long collision of Jupiter and the twenty-one pieces that had made up Shoemaker-Levy was on the giant Jovian scale.",
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          "ref": "1994, Astronomy Now:",
          "text": "Astronomer Eugene Shoemaker reassured reporters even as the biggest fragment of Shoemaker-Levy was no \"dinosaur killer\".",
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          "ref": "2012, Russell Gerald Johnston, Random Wisdom, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 462:",
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