I remember going to the Palomar Observatory as a kid on a field trip and they showed us the footage of Shoemaker–Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter. That is probably

I remember going to the Palomar Observatory as a kid on a field trip and they showed us the footage of Shoemaker–Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter. That is probably my earliest memory of my interest in science and space. I also remember thinking it was so cool that they sent Shoemaker's ashes to the moon. The things that will stick with you decades later.