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On July 8, 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, 40,000 kilometers from Jupiter's surface, split into 21 small fragments due to Jupiter's strong gravitational pull, three of which flew away from Jupiter's gravity and flew towards the Sun.

Starting at 20:15 on July 16, 1994, the remaining 18 fragments entered Jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of 210,000 kilometers per hour and crashed into Jupiter's southern hemisphere, forming an astronomical spectacle of comet hitting Jupiter. This is also the first time that a celestial impact event in the solar system has been directly observed. After the 18 comet fragments hit Jupiter, the seismic shock waves generated by them swept across Jupiter, and the dust produced by the impact made the mist in Jupiter's stratosphere thicker, and the mass of its ring system also increased, adding three large red spots to Jupiter's surface.

To facilitate the study, astronomers at the time identified the 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the letters "A" to "U". Of the 18 fragments, Fragment G was the most powerful, hitting Jupiter with a force of 6 million tons of TNT explosives (equivalent to 750 times the global nuclear arsenal combined) and causing a scar longer than the diameter of the Earth. The remaining 3 fragments flying in the direction of the sun are: C, J, and K.

At 2:00 a.m. on December 24, 1994, a section of the seabed rock of the Lanka Ridge at 6,090 meters in the Central Indian Ocean basin suddenly fractured. When there were still about 900 meters above the sea, I had already exhausted my fall.

At this time, a group of bluefin tuna was swimming in a panic, and a bluefin tuna more than 3 meters long curiously touched the rock with its mouth, but the rock broke apart, and with the force of the collapse, an object the length of a human little finger and the thickness of a toothpick pierced into the mouth of this bluefin tuna. It was like being bitten by a mosquito and it didn't do much damage to the fish, it just swam in place a few times in frustration, and its huge spindle-shaped body was slightly stunned, but it quickly caught up with the fish and swam away.

At 8:00 a.m. on December 24, 1994, CNN TV in the United States broadcast an earthquake news that an earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred in the Indian Ocean basin at 12 degrees 19 minutes south latitude and 79 degrees 51 minutes east longitude at about 2:00 a.m. today.

In the past, the sky was clear, the earth was peaceful, the gods were spiritual, the valley was surplus, all things were born, and the king was chaste in the world.

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