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I removed what you copied from Wikipedia. Please don't copy Wikipedia text here.

It's an interesting comparison. Both asteroids collided with their eventual destinations in the month of July, SL9 struck in 1994 whereas Ulysses was discovered in that year, and - if the translation we have on Acepedia is accurate on this detail - both of them broke apart after hitting the planet's Roche limit.