12. COMET IMPACT JUPITER

Everyone will remember the impressive pictures of the impact of the socalled comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 of which 21 fragments plunged into the atmosphere of Jupiter with a speed of 216.000 km/h. See the comet fragments on their way to Jupiter in the next photo. It shows clearly how "tidal forces", result of the enormous gravitationstrength splitting up the comet and stretching the lumps, reducing their dimenions down to a few kilometers at the moment of impact.