Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (born 1929) is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and wife to Eugene Shoemaker. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hubble Space Telescope image taken on May 17, 1994. ... Eugene Shoemaker at a stereoscopic microscope used for asteroid discovery Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science and is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker...

Shoemaker holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual. She started her astronomical career in 1980, searching for Earth-crossing asteroids and comets at Caltech and the Palomar Observatory. Comet Hale-Bopp, showing a white dust tail and blue gas tail (February 1997) Comet (disambiguation). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Palomar Observatory is a privately-owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Mount Wilson Observatory, on Palomar Mountain. ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Shoemaker used film taken at the wide-field telescope at Palomar, combined with a stereoscope, to find objects which moved against the background of fixed stars. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... Stereoscopy, stereoscopic imaging or 3-D (three-dimensional) imaging is a technique to create the illusion of depth in a photograph, movie, or other two-dimensional image, by presenting a slightly different image to each eye. ...

As of 2002, Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and over 800 asteroids. She received an honorary doctorate from the Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, Arizona and the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1996. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a university in Flagstaff, Arizona in the United States. ... Flagstaff (Navajo Kinłání) is a city located in Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the west of the United States. ... This article needs cleanup. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

External link

• USGS page about Carolyn Shoemaker (http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/People/CarolynShoemaker/) (also used as a reference)