In the Collisions of the Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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Multiple Choice

In the collisions of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, the pieces

• A) were not able to penetrate deeply into Jupiter's atmosphere; their impacts disturbed only the high atmosphere.
• B) were able to penetrate through the atmospheric layers and the liquid metallic hydrogen region to reach the solid core because they were passing through only hydrogen.
• C) skipped off the very high layers of Jupiter's atmosphere and went back out into space because of their tangential approach angles.
• D) penetrated very deeply into Jupiter's atmosphere, reaching and disturbing the liquid metallic hydrogen region.

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