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A mechanism explaining the sizes and structure of large-scale disturbances produced in Jupiter’s atmosphere by the impact of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy is proposed.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 63, No. 10, 773–777 (25 May 1996)
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Ivanov, M.F., Gal’burt, V.A. & Fortov, V.E. On a possible mechanism of the formation of large-scale disturbances in Jupiter’s atmosphere as a result of the falling of fragments of Comet Schoemaker-Levy 9. Jetp Lett. 63, 813–817 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567096
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