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Over the course of one week in July, 21 pieces of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 rained down on Jupiter. Astronomers predicted it would happen, and were ready for it.
The best pictures came from the Hubble Space Telescope, and left observers breathless.
When the first piece of the comet, Fragment A, observers saw a dark formation thousands of kilometers wide. When the largest fragment, G, hit three days later,
it unleashed a force equal to 500,000,000 Hiroshima-type bombs.
What does this mean for us? Some say Earth could become a bullseye for a comet or an asteroid.
Carl Sagan, Cornell Univ. Astronomer: Chicken Little was mistaken, but, as Shoemaker-Levy 9 hitting Jupiter reminds us, there really are these objects in the sky, and they really do hit worlds.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 leaves behind a legacy: A mountain of data that will keep scientists busy for years.
Narrator: Don Harrison
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NASA Animations
CNN
Jupiter
July 16, 1994
After Impact on, Enlarged and Enhanced
Hubble Space Telescope
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
KECK Impact G 2.2 Microns
Cornell University
Washington, D.C.
day 195
Liquid metallic hydrogen
Core
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Over the course of one week in July, 21 pieces of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 rained down on Jupiter. Astronomers predicted it would happen, and were ready for it.
The best pictures came from the Hubble Space Telescope, and left observers breathless.
When the first piece of the comet, Fragment A, observers saw a dark formation thousands of kilometers wide. When the largest fragment, G, hit three days later,
it unleashed a force equal to 500,000,000 Hiroshima-type bombs.
What does this mean for us? Some say Earth could become a bullseye for a comet or an asteroid.
Carl Sagan, Cornell Univ. Astronomer: Chicken Little was mistaken, but, as Shoemaker-Levy 9 hitting Jupiter reminds us, there really are these objects in the sky, and they really do hit worlds.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 leaves behind a legacy: A mountain of data that will keep scientists busy for years.
Narrator: Don Harrison
----------------
NASA Animations
CNN
Jupiter
July 16, 1994
After Impact on, Enlarged and Enhanced
Hubble Space Telescope
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
KECK Impact G 2.2 Microns
Cornell University
Washington, D.C.
day 195
Liquid metallic hydrogen
Core
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Over the course of one week in July, 21 pieces of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 rained down on Jupiter. Astronomers predicted it would happen, and were ready for it.
The best pictures came from the Hubble Space Telescope, and left observers breathless.
When the first piece of the comet, Fragment A, observers saw a dark formation thousands of kilometers wide. When the largest fragment, G, hit three days later,
it unleashed a force equal to 500,000,000 Hiroshima-type bombs.
What does this mean for us? Some say Earth could become a bullseye for a comet or an asteroid.
Carl Sagan, Cornell Univ. Astronomer: Chicken Little was mistaken, but, as Shoemaker-Levy 9 hitting Jupiter reminds us, there really are these objects in the sky, and they really do hit worlds.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 leaves behind a legacy: A mountain of data that will keep scientists busy for years.
Narrator: Don Harrison
NASA Animations
CNN
Jupiter
July 16, 1994
After Impact on, Enlarged and Enhanced
Hubble Space Telescope
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
KECK Impact G 2.2 Microns
Cornell University
Washington, D.C.
day 195
Liquid metallic hydrogen
Core")
![Rudy Giuliani Inauguration Upstaged by Son Andrew’s Antics [1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Re_wo_Bl9Uc/mqdefault.jpg "Rudy Giuliani Inauguration Upstaged by Son Andrew’s Antics [1994]
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Chris Farley famously lampooned this event on Saturday Night Live. The event took place January 2nd, 1994, at the Mayoral Inauguration of Rudy Giuliani.
U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey: Please raise your right hand.
At, first it seemed a heartwarming example of father-son bonding. 7-year-old Andrew taking the oath as New York City mayor along with his father, Rudolph Guiliani.
Judge: ...that I will support the Constitution of the United States...
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, New York: ...that I will support...
But, when Mayor Giuliani went to the podium, so did Andrew.
Giuliani: Im gonna have a co-addressee I guess: Andrew.
And soon, he was upstaging his fathers no-nonsense message.
Giuliani: ...of the centrality of God to our city... ...and New York City will again be the capital of the world.
Andrew: It should be so, and it will be so.
Giuliani: All of you have the same ingenuity, the same sensitivity, the same talent, the same courage that our ancestors had ... a stronger and a healthier City. It should be so and it will be so. Thank you.
Narrator: Don Harrison, CNN")
![ʙʀAᴜɴ ‘Style ’n Go’ ad [1993]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RyPZNyAYb4Q/mqdefault.jpg "ʙʀAᴜɴ ‘Style ’n Go’ ad [1993]
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Recorded not long before 1993-04-25. New Style ’n Go. A bunch of women with very different hairstyles from curly to bald to frizzy to straight all use the Braun Style ’n Go curling iron / electric brush. Woman at the end secrets it conveniently in her jean pocket. Song in the background says Go, go go... ready? Do what you wanna do...
ʙʀAᴜɴ")
![United States Comes Close to Invading Haiti [1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TCCXrcB1ciU/mqdefault.jpg "United States Comes Close to Invading Haiti [1994]
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September: When Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide is ousted by Raoul Cedras, President Jimmy Carter negotiates a relinquishment of power. Negotiations continue until after warplanes have already left for a mission to invade, at which point Cédras concedes.
Narrator: Bobbie Battista
President Bill Clinton
Secretary of State Warren Christopher
Port au Prince Airport
Voice of Wolf Blitzer")
![Nirvanas Kurt Kobain Dies [1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TIsh7N4o9Ps/mqdefault.jpg "Nirvanas Kurt Kobain Dies [1994]
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“I dont think Kurt Cobain ever knew how to deal with fame.”
On a stormy April 5th, 1994 morning in Seattle, an electrician working at the million-dollar home of troubled grunge rock sensation Kurt Cobain makes an alarming discovery.
Vinette Tichi, Seattle Police: “When he looked inside he saw a man lying on the floor. It was obvious this man is dead from a shotgun wound to the head.”
Its Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, whose debut album Nevermind vaulted the band instant fame.
Michael Azerrad, Friend: “A month before that album came out they were practically nobody. A month after it came out, they were spokesmen for their generation.”
Cobains mother said hed been missing for six days, and, referring to the premature deaths of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix, she adds: “Now hes gone and joined that stupid Club.”
“Im so ugly, but thats okay, cos so are you...”
[From DGC Records]
[Rolling Stone Cover: Nirvana: Success Doesnt Suck NONE-A-DAY]
[Associated Press Photos]")
