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Ulysses: Encounter With Jupiter
A short VNR concerning the collision Between Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the planet Jupiter. begin 00:02:00:00 title: comet Shoemaker Levy collides with the planet Jupiter 00:02:05:00 conditions of use 00:02:20:00 animation Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter 00:03:09:00 animation cs the Earth away from cam; bcs moon comes into frame 00:04:02:00 animation vls Jupiter, to cam 00:04:40:00 animation the asteroid belt 00:05:12:00 gv Giotto operators 00:05:17:00 animation mls Giotto to cam 00:05:22:00 Giotto image nucleus of Halley's comet 00:05:27:00 animations Shoemaker-Levy becomes trapped by Jupiter and breaks up 00:06:09:00 animation Hubble Space Telescope [HST] 00:06:19:00 HST wide field planetary camera images of Shoemaker-Levy 00:06:27:00 animations Jupiter and its moons 00:06:46:00 Voyager images of Jupiter 00:07:06:00 animations Shoemaker-Levy strikes Jupiter 00:07:52:00 animation Ulysses probe 00:08:08:00 animations the end of the dinosaurs 00:08:28:00 credits 00:08:33:00 end
