Today, Shoemaker is best known as part of the eponymous team that identified the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which crashed into the atmosphere of Jupiter in 1994, with spectacular results.
Gompieno, Shoemaker o itsege thata jaaka karolo ya setlhopha sa go reeletsweng ka bona se se supileng naledi e e mogatla Shoemaker-Levy 9, e e thutseng mo lefaufaung la Jupiter ka 1994, le dipholo tse di gakgamatsang.