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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
David H. Levy

Born: May 22, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
Known for:
- Shoemaker by Levy (2000)
- The quest for comets (1994)
- David Levy's Guide to Variable Stars (2005)
- Observing variable stars (1989)