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It may have done earlier on in the solar systems life as the planets were forming. More recently, it pulled in a comet known as shoemaker levy 9. Jupiter's gravity first broke the comet up into a `string of pearls`, lots of smaller comets in a row. These then collided with the planet later on, in July 1994. This collision allowed astronomers to observe more deeply into Jupiter's structure, as inner material was ejected after the collision.

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