Shoemaker-Levyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.meɪˌkɝ ˈlɛ.vi/, enPR: sho͞oʹmā-kûr' lĕʹvi

固有名詞

Shoemaker-Levy

1. Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, a comet which collided with Jupiter.
   • 1994, The Michigan Alumnus, page 19

     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.

   • 1994, Astronomy Now

     Astronomer Eugene Shoemaker reassured reporters even as the biggest fragment of Shoemaker-Levy was no "dinosaur killer".

   • 2012, Russell Gerald Johnston, Random Wisdom, iUniverse (ISBN 9781475917697), page 462

     Shoemaker-Levy was broken up into a string of pearls by a close encounter with Jupiter, and on their next orbit the pearls slammed into Jupiter one after the other in quick succession.

使用する際の注意点

Levy and the Shoemakers discovered at least thirteen comets together which are all named Comet Shoemaker-Levy, but Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 is the only one generally referred to without its title or number.