# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-h-levy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:37:03.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-h-levy"
name: "David H. Levy"
slug: "david-h-levy"
description: "David Howard (Doveed) Levy is a Canadian-American amateur astronomer, science writer, and discoverer of comets and minor planets. He is best known for co-discovering Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with Jupiter in 1994 in the first observed planetary-scale impact in the Solar System."
tagline: "Canadian astronomer (born 1948)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1948-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump