David H. Levy special edition telescope, "The Comet Hunter" was co-designed by Levy. Together with Martyn Ives, David Taylor, and Benjamin Woolley, Levy won a 1998 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the "Individual Achievement in a Craft, Writer" category for the script of the documentary "3 Minutes to Impact" produced by York Films for the Discovery Channel. David H. Levy David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994. Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
Rings of Saturn has been attributed to a perturbation caused by impact of material from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. The C Ring is a wide but faint ring located inward of the B Ring. It was discovered in 1850 by William and George Bond, though William R. Dawes and Johann Galle also saw it independently. William Lassell termed it the "Crepe Ring" because it seemed to be composed of darker material than the brighter A and B Rings. Its vertical thickness is estimated at 5 m its mass at around 1.1 kg, and its optical depth varies from 0.05 to 0.12. That