Today’s Jewish birthday: David Howard Levy

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David Levy, 1994 (Photo: Wikipedia)

David Howard Levy (May 22, 1948) is a Canadian-American amateur astronomer, science writer, and discoverer of comets and minor planets. He is best known for co-discovering Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with Jupiter in 1994 in the first observed planetary-scale impact in the Solar System.

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Tomorrow, May 23:  Artie Shaw