Shoemaker, Eugene
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| Birthname | Shoemaker, Eugene Merle | ||
| born on | 28 April 1928 at 11:56 (= 11:56 AM ) | ||
| Place | Los Angeles CA, USA, 34n03, 118w14 | ||
| Timezone | PST h8w (is standard time) | ||
| Data source |
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| Astrology data |   08°16'   01°18 Asc. 16°02'
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Biography
American astrogeologist and U.S. government official, the noted co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which made a spectacular, televised collision with Jupiter in July 1994. He has the distinction of being the first person to have a lunar burial as his ashes were aboard NASA's Lunar Prospector which crashed into the earth's Moon on 7/31/1999 at 04:52 AM CDT at a speed of approximately 3,800 mph. He had always wanted to make a space shot with the astronauts but died in a car accident on July 18, 1997 in Alice Springs, Australia.
Events
- Death by Accident 18 July 1997 (Car accident, age 69)
- Social : Great Publicity 31 July 1999 at 12:52 AM in Moon (Ashes buried on the Moon)
- Work : Great Achievement 24 March 1993 (Co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9)
Source Notes
Gauquelin Book of American Charts
Categories
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Accident/Injury (Fatal car crash)
- Notable : Famous : First in Field (First person to be buried on the Moon)
- Vocation : Science : Geology (Astrogeologist)
