Eugene Shoemaker Lecture
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture
Session ID#: 164297
Session Description:
The Shoemaker Lecture is part of the AGU series of Bowie lectures that were inaugurated in 1989 at the 50th presentation of the William Bowie Medal, the AGU's highest honor. The Shoemaker lecture is named for Eugene Shoemaker, an outstanding geologist and planetary scientist known for his study of impact craters and lunar science. Shoemaker was awarded the Bowie Medal in 1996 and was killed in an auto accident in Australia in 1997. His citation for the Bowie Medal illuminates his illustrious career that was crowned with the discovery that Comet Shoemaker/Levy-9 would impact Jupiter in 1994.
Index Terms:
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Michael Mischna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener: Paul Byrne, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, United States
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