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USA: ROCKET LAUNCHED TO GET CLOSER LOOK AT COMET HALE BOPP
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA - March 24 and file(24 March 1997)1. Wide shot of sounding rocket is launched2. Mid shot of scientist in control room, tracking rocket on monitor3. SOUNDBITE (English): Alan Hale, co-discoverer...
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USA - Brightest comet visible to naked eye
Comet Hale-Bopp, the brightest comet to enter the solar system since 1577, can now be seen clearly with the naked eye in the northern hemisphere's night sky.
The comet, named after the two astronomers who simultaneously discovered it,...
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Getting Up Close and Personal With Interstellar Objects
Feb.26 -- Space missions usually take years to prepare. Now the European Space Agency is designing one that can spring into action when an interstellar object appears, allowing a close-up look before it passes us by.
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USA - NASA Snaps Sunny Side Of Comet
Washington, USA Natural Sound Duration: 1.38"
NASA has released photographs of the comet Hyakutake taken by the US Naval Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph, known as LASCO. The pictures were snapped at...
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SYND 4-12-73 KOHOUTEK ON NEW COMET
Interview with Astronomer Doctor Lubos Kohoutek about the comet "1973 F" he has been tracking through the solar system and what can be learned from studying comets
1. wide gv exterior observatory
2. SOUNDBITE: interview Doctor Lubos...
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USA - Comet Hale-Bopp
NASA released six still pictures on Friday (21/03) of the comet
Hale-Bopp taken by astronomer James Young from the Table
Mountain Observatory, part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
California.
vs stills of the comet hale bopp;
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USA: SCIENTISTS USE HIGH TECH TOOLS TO VIEW HALE BOPP COMET
NASA, USA, 1 April 1997
1. Simulated comet spinning around
2. Various photos of comet in sky
3. SOUNDBITE: Fred Espenak, NASA Astrophysicist
4. Various photos of comet
5. SOUNDBITE: Espenak
6. Various rocket being assembled (NASA...
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USA: FIRST WEEK IN APRIL IS BEST TIME TO SEE THE HALE BOPP COMET
Washington, DC, USA, April 1, 19971. Wide shot of telescopes on lawn of U.S. Naval Observatory.2. Various shots of people setting up telescopes.3. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Steven Dick, U.S. Naval Observatory. 4. Close-up boy looks through...
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USA: STARGAZERS LOOK FOR LEONID METEOR SHOWER
Natural Sound
Stargazers around the world are looking towards the heavens for a unique celestial event.
It's a meteor shower created by the dusty trial of Comet Temple-Tuttle.
The dazzling display, also known as the Leonid meteor...
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ESAs Rosetta Accomplished an Extraordinary Feat: Lewicki
Nov. 12 -- Europes Rosetta spacecraft today landed the first ever probe on a comet, the culmination of a decade-long mission to the icy body thats currently between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Planetary Resources President Chris...
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Jones Day Sees 'No Emergency' Driving Deutsche Bank Merger
Apr.11 -- Robert Profusek, Jones Day global chair of M&A, discusses the hurdles facing a potential merger of Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG. He speaks with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu and Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close"
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JORDAN: LEONID METEOR SHOWER (3)
English/Nat
Astronomers and amateur stargazers gathered in Jordan to witness a storm of Leonid meteors light up the night sky on Wednesday.
Many amateurs came from the United States, considering Jordan's desert to be the best viewing...
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USA: CALIFORNIA: 2 PEOPLE IMITATE MASS SUICIDE OF HEAVEN'S GATE CULT
Encinitas, California, USA, 6 May 1997
1. Body being carried from hotel room
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergeant Don Crist, San Diego County Sheriff's Department
3. Body carried down steps
4. Close up hotel room door
5. Interior of hotel...
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SPACE: SHUTTLE DISCOVERY BEAMS DOWN PICTURES OF HALE-BOPP COMET (2)
Space craft Discovery orbiting Earth - August 9, 1997
1.Telescopic view of the Hale-Bop comet out in space
2. Medium shot of Discovery and earth
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Robinson, astronaut
3. Medium shot of Discovery orbiting...
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SPACE: US SHUTTLE DISCOVERY BEAMS DOWN PICTURES OF HALE-BOPP COMET
English/Nat
NASA's space craft Discovery's beamed down faint, fuzzy pictures of the Hale-Bopp comet Saturday from an ultraviolet telescope.
It's the first time the $500,000 telescope has flown in space.
If everything works, scientists...
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NASA releases space probe due to collide with comet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
1. Video from the mothership (Deep Impact) as it approaches the comet over a one month time period - showing outbursts
2. Scientists as JPL applaud after Deep Impact releases its...
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ISRAEL: LEONID METEOR SHOWER (1)
English/Nat
Astronomers and amateur stargazers gathered in key locations around the world to witness a storm of Leonid meteors light up the night sky on Thursday.
Experts say the meteor shower should be the most spectacular this decade. ...
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UK: EXCITEMENT MOUNTS AS COMET HALE BOPP APPROACHES
(Cambridge, UK, 12 March 1997)
1. Amateur astronomers bring out telescope
2. Excited astronomers look up at sky
3. Zoom in from ground to comet
4. Closeup of comet projected onto screen
5. SOUNDBITE: Peter Ingram, Cambridge Astronomical...
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Preview to launch of Deep Impact meteorite probe
++Animation++
1. Rocket carrying Deep Impact blasting off
2. Deep Impact separating from rocket in space
3. Deep Impact's trajectory towards comet
4. Graphic of comet's trajectory in solar system
5. Comet moving in space
6. Deep Impact...
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UK: LEEDS: TRAVEL AGENCY RUNS "COMET FLIGHTS" TO SEE HALE-BOPP
Eng/Ger/Nat
Hundreds of amateur astronomers have been getting an extra-special glimpse of what's been called "the comet of the century".
They've been on special 'comet flights' run by a British travel agency to get a better view of the...
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Comet probe blasts off from Cape Canaveral
1. Delta II with Contour satellite on launch pad
2. Control room at Cape Canaveral
3. Engine pack of Delta II rocket
4. Countdown with launch pad
5. Delta II lifts off launch pad
6. Rocket in mid flight after launch
7. Rocket...
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SYND 16-11-73 ASTRONAUTS PREPARE FOR THIRD SKYLAB MISSION
Gerald Carr, Robert 'Hoot' Gibson, William R. Pogue, the three skylab astronauts attending their final briefing and work-out session prior to blast off on Friday. It could last for up to eighty-four days if all goes well.
1. ms...
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Preparations for Jewish festival of Passover
Jerusalem - 25 March 2013
1. Various shots of Ultra-Orthodox Jews standing around bonfire and burning bread and other leavened food
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zaki Dreyfus, Ultra-Orthodox Jew:
"The reason we burn the fire is that Hashem...
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Preview of plans for Deep Impact to send probe to blast comet
1. Computer animation sequence showing approach of Deep Impact spacecraft toward comet and impact of Deep Impact comet probe
Pasadena, California - June 24, 2005
2. Mid shot of Deep Impact mission project manager Rick Grammier pointing...