Cosmic collisions / American Museum of Natural History.

This 20-min. long multi-language planetarium show will show the violent face of our Sun, with streams of charged solar particles striking the Earth's magnetic field, and producing the eerie glow of the auroras. Viewers will also see the creation of our Moon when a wandering planetoid struck Earth; t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Museum of Natural History
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Other Authors: Fisher, Richard R.
Guhathakurta, Madhulika
Redford, Robert
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Italian
Spanish
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : American Museum of Natural History, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Collisions (Astrophysics) > Interactive multimedia.
Asteroids > Interactive multimedia.
Comets > Interactive multimedia.
Sun > Interactive multimedia.
Earth (Planet) > Interactive multimedia.
Genre:
Interactive multimedia.
Local Note:
LM copy 1 housed in the audiovisual collection.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Government Document Video DVD
Description
Summary:
This 20-min. long multi-language planetarium show will show the violent face of our Sun, with streams of charged solar particles striking the Earth's magnetic field, and producing the eerie glow of the auroras. Viewers will also see the creation of our Moon when a wandering planetoid struck Earth; the violent meeting of two stars at the edge of the galaxy; and the future collision of our Milky Way galaxy with our closest neighbor, the Andromeda spiral galaxy--NASA web site.
Note:Title from disc label.
"Cosmic collisions was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; GOTO Inc., Tokyo, Japan; the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. Made possible through the generous support of CIT."
"Developed with the major support and partnership of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Science Mission Direction, Heliophysics Division."
"NP-2008-04-020-GSFC."
Shipping list number: 2008-0029-E.
Videorecording.
Call Number:NAS 1.86:C 82/CD
Credits:Developed by Richard R. Fisher, Madhulika Guhathakurta ; written by Stephanie Abrams, Louise A. Gikow ; music by Marcelo Zarvos, Robert Miller ; produced by Jon Silbermann ; director Carter Emmart ; producer Christopher Scollard ; executive producer Anthony Braun.
System Details:DVD.
System requirements: PC with DVD-ROM drive.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator: Robert Redford.