Short description | Longer description | File Location | File Chapter | File Type
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very NEA | 0:49 Shows asteroid hurtling towards you - then heading ominously towards the terminator of Earth. Fades out | AL1 | 1 | Clip
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Moon Phases | Animation of moon phases | AL1 | 2 | Clip
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Saturn Ring Animation | 0:59 - An animated view of the ring plane of Saturn - shows real size distribution of particles | AL1 | 3 | Clip
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Solar System Formation | A cool zooming sequence which starts looking at a star-forming nebula. zooming past other stars and dust to the hypothetical T-Tauri sun.Then zooms in past forming Jupiter and mars to a molten proto-Earth which cools to present day Earth | AL1 | 4 | Clip
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Asteroid | 0:49 - Zoom in on Asteroid - rotates showing potato shape and craters - zooms out and fades | AL1 | 5 | Clip
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Bolide | 0:13 - Animation of a bolide (an asteroid which burns up before hitting the ground) - a failed meteorite if you prefer | AL1 | 6 | Clip
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Planet Earth | 0:49 - Zoom in on Earth - spins from Africa to S. America - illumination is close to equinox - zooms out | AL1 | 7 | Clip
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Planet Earth - Long | 2:19 - Zoom in on Earth - spins 1.5 times - illumination is close to equinox - zooms out | AL1 | 8 | Clip
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Earth and Moon | 2:19 - shows moon orbiting a spinning earth for many months - each month there is a lunar and solar eclipse which never happens this frequently | AL1 | 9 | Clip
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Earth Impact | 0:33 - close up of large meteorite slamming into atlantic ocean just after sunset on the east coast? | AL1 | 10 | Clip
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Planet Jupiter | 0:49 - zoom in on spinning Jupiter - perspective from below to above ring plane - great red spot in view after about 20 seconds | AL1 | 11 | Clip
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Planet Jupiter - Long | 2:19 - zoom in on spinning Jupiter - rotates 1.5 times - slow perspective change from below to above ring plane | AL1 | 12 | Clip
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Lunar Eclipse | 0:59 - as seen from Earth - enters penumbra at 10 sec - umbra at 18 sec - turning dark red due to sunlight refracted around earth | AL1 | 13 | Clip
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Planet Mars | 0:49 - zoom in on spinning Mars - Major features in order of appearance are: Elysium Mons in upper right; Hellas Impact basin; Arabia Terra then to volcanic highlands catching a sight of Vallis Marineres right before zooming out | AL1 | 14 | Clip
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Planet Mars - Long | 2:19 Mars spinning 1.5 times - Elysium Mons in upper right; Hellas Impact basin; Arabia Terra; Choas Terrain; /Vallis Marineres/Volcanoes on Tharsis - three in a line then Olympus Mons (biggest in SS! 3 X Everest!); back to beginning? | AL1 | 15 | Clip
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Mars Flyover | 1:02 - Flyover polar cap; olympus mon; mariner valley | AL1 | 16 | Clip
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Wet Mars | 1:14 - Shows a hypothetical Mars that is wet and has an abundant atmosphere then fades to current Mars. The water-fill accents the fact that one side of Mars is much lower than the other. | AL1 | 17 | Clip
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Mercury | 0:49 - Zoom in on Mercury; rotate; then zooms out | AL1 | 18 | Clip
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Mercury - Long | 2:19 - Zoom in on Mercury; rotate; then zooms out | AL1 | 19 | Clip
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Moon | 0:49 - Zoom in on the moon and watch it rotate | AL1 | 20 | Clip
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Moon - Long | 2:19 - A longer sequence where you zoom in on the moon and watch it rotate | AL1 | 21 | Clip
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Neptune | 0:49 - Zoom in on a rotating Neptune | AL1 | 22 | Clip
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Neptune - Long | 2:19 - Zoom in on a rotating Neptune | AL1 | 23 | Clip
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Pluto | 1:09 - Zoom in on aa artist interpretation of the Pluto and Charon system | AL1 | 24 | Clip
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Pluto - Long | 2:39 - Zoom in on an artist interpretation of the Pluto and Charon system | AL1 | 25 | Clip
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Saturn | 0:49 - Zoom in on Saturn | AL1 | 26 | Clip
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Saturn - Long | 2:19 - Zoom in on Saturn | AL1 | 27 | Clip
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Sun | 1:09 - Zoom in of the sun as seen in visible light | AL1 | 28 | Clip
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Sun - Long | 2:39 - Zoom in on the sun as seen in visible light | AL1 | 29 | Clip
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Uranus | 0:49 - Zoom in on Uranus with its faint rings | AL1 | 30 | Clip
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Uranus - Long | 2:19 - Zoom in on your anus | AL1 | 31 | Clip
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Venus | 0:49 - Zoom in on Venus | AL1 | 32 | Clip
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Venus - Long | 2:19 - Zoom in on Venus | AL1 | 33 | Clip
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Venus - with and without atmosphere | 1:14 - Zoom in on Venus as it is and then the atmosphere dissolves to reveal the surface below | AL1 | 34 | Clip
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Venus - with and without atms - Long | 2:14 - Zoom in on Venus as it is and then the atmosphere dissolves to reveal the surface below | AL1 | 35 | Clip
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Sheppard Moon | From Cassini mission - ring wake from moonlet | AL1 | 36 | Clip
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Intro sequence | Intro sequence for the planetarium -- a slide show with some animations to show while people are coming in and settling down | AL1 | 66 | Clip
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toby test | apollo 17 | AL1 | 70 | Clip
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Solar Eclipse | 1:19 - Total solar eclipse with a pause at totality to show the effects of chromospheric light shining through the craters on the limb of the moon | AL1 | 71 | Clip
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Ring Galaxy | Hubble image of Ring Galaxy AM 0644-741. a recent victim of galaxy collisions | AL1 | 97 | Still
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Annie Disk | 0:50 Annies movie | AL3 | 1 | Clip
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CME to aurora | 0:25 Animation of Sun - coronal mass ejection - zooms to earth with magnetosphere - CME interaction overwhelms field lines - reconnection drives ions along field lines to poles - ends with aurora | AL3 | 3 | Clip
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Hubble Montage | 1:00 movie of stills - HST images | AL3 | 5 | Clip
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Gal Cluster Form | 0:45 - formation of a galaxy cluster moore et al | AL3 | 10 | Clip
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Galaxy Merger | 0:58 - galaxy merger animation | AL3 | 15 | Clip
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Planet Formation | 0:25 - Grahams movie - purple is a nice color for forming planets? | AL3 | 16 | Clip
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SOHO CME | 0:21 - earth bound eruption in various filters | AL3 | 19 | Clip
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SOHO Comet | 0:09 - Comet NEAT passing near the sun | AL3 | 22 | Clip
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SOHO filaments | 0:07 - cool x ray filiament eruption | AL3 | 23 | Clip
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SOHO Xray | 2:05 SOHO Xray flares movie | AL3 | 32 | Clip
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Galactic Voyage | 3:19 A very cool powers of ten style animation that stars on the outskirts of the milky way - heads towards the dust lane passing sattelites and globulars - supernova remnants - goes through spiral arms and lots of empty space - goes by saturn - jupiter asteroid belt - mars - comet - moon - than earth spinning- fades out | AL3 | 33 | Clip
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Orion Voyage | 2:20 Starts with view of constellation and zooms in allows us to see (Hiparcos accurate!) relative distances to stars - heads to nebula past horsehead - quick swing by trapezium (central cluster of bright stars) then into a proplyd with a disk ending at a still molten forming planet - NOTE - this version has a rendering artifact near the planet - a new version is on the way. | AL3 | 34 | Clip
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Mercury - 1999 solar transit | transit of Mercury - not sure of wavelegnth or who/what took this picture? | AL3 | 40 | Clip
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M64 - spiral w/ dust | 45 % inclination spiral with nice dust lane | AL3 | 88 | Still
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Sun - in H-alpha | The picture was taken in a specific color of light emitted by hydrogen gas called Hydrogen-alpha. Granules cover the solar photosphere surface like shag carpet interrupted by bright regions containing dark sunspots. Visible at the left edge is a solar prominence. | AL2 | 1 | Still
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Sun - sunspot close-up | Sometimes small regions of the Sun appear unusually dark. This is a close-up picture of a sunspot-- a depression on the Suns face that is slightly cooler and less luminous than the rest of the Sun. The Suns complex magnetic field creates this cool region by inhibiting hot material from entering the spot. Sunspots can be larger than the Earth and typically last for only a few days. This high-resolution picture also shows clearly that the Suns face is a bubbling sea of separate cells of hot gas. These cells are known as granules. A solar granule is about 1000 kilometers across and lasts about 10 minutes. After that many granules end up exploding. | AL2 | 2 | Still
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Sun - plasma loops | This dramatic high resolution picture looking across the edge of the Sun shows graceful arcs of intensely hot gas suspended in powerful looping magnetic fields which soar above a solar active region. The colorized image was made in the extreme ultraviolet light radiated by highly ionized Iron atoms. With a temperature of a mere 6000 degrees Celsius the suns surface is relatively cool and dark at these wavelengths but the million degree hot plasma loops glow strongly! Such images follow the plasma and magnetic structures arising from the surface of the sun as they merge with the tenuous hot solar Corona or outer atmosphere. Scientists hope to explore the connections between complex solar magnetic fields and potentially hazardous solar eruptions. | AL2 | 3 | Still
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Mercury | Mercurys surface looks similar to our Moons. Each is heavily cratered and made of rock. Mercurys diameter is about 4800 km while the Moons is slightly less at about 3500 km (compared with about 12700 km for the Earth). But Mercury is unique in many ways. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun-- orbiting at about 1/3 the radius of the Earths orbit. As Mercury slowly rotates its surface temperature varies from an unbearably cold -180 degrees Celsius to an unbearably hot 400 degrees Celsius. The place nearest the Sun in Mercurys orbit changes slightly each orbit - a fact used by Albert Einstein to help verify the correctness of his then newly discovered theory of gravity: General Relativity. The above picture was taken by the only spacecraft ever to pass Mercury: Mariner 10 in 1974. | AL2 | 4 | Still
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Millenium Zoom | cosmological zoom | AL3 | 89 | Clip
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Millenium Flyby | fly through the universe | AL3 | 90 | Clip
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Comet Earth | 1:15 Animation that starts off in tail of comet flying toward nucleus. Debris and gas are seen. Then it loops and zooms around a spinning Earth - then pulls back out to show both comet and earth together with the scale showing a very large tail. Could then show Comet Impact if you want to be dramatic... | AL2 | 5 | Clip
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Comet Impact | 0:48 Animation of a broken up comet hitting earth (like SL-9) Here a large comet reamains intact (nucleus/tail etc) but small pieces whiz by first the moon. then earth. then one hits | AL2 | 7 | Clip
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Moon Formation | 3:19 Animation of moon formation by giant impact.Starts off with mostly formed protoEarth with small bodies impacting. A large impactor comes into view and a chance impact occurs on it. This breaks the impactor into many small chunks some of which hit the planet (less dramatically than one might think...) luanching new debris. By the end the moon has re-accreted and is making a gap in the debris disk around Earth. | AL2 | 6 | Clip
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Planetary Nebula | 0:38 Animation of a sun-like star shedding its outer envelope to form a nice spherical nebula. Looks a bit like M57 (ring nebula in Lyra) at the end. Fades? | AL2 | 8 | Clip
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Tunguska | 1:50 Animation of the Tunguska Impactor (1908 Siberia) flattened trees of 2000 sq km (800 sq m). No crater exists and the impactor is estimated as a 20 m piece of comet or asteroid which exploded 5-10 km (3-6 m) over the surface. Largest impact in recent earth history. Equivalent to 10-20 Megatons of TNT which is on the order of the largest H bomb ever detonated. Animation starts looking at the Milky Way. A small rock drifts across the field of view - pases through the field of the sun - then hits Siberia after a few cuts to various angles. Another neat Wikipedia fact? If this impact had occured 4 hours and 47 minutes later it would have wiped out St. Petersburg. | AL2 | 9 | Clip
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Sizes Planets to Stars | from mercury to vv cephei | AL2 | 10 | Clip
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Hercules Cluster | At its distance of 25-100 light years- its angular diameter of 20 deg corresponds to a linear 145 light years - visually- it is perhaps 13 deg large. It contains several 100-000 stars Timothy Ferris in his book Galaxies even says -more than a million-. Towards its center- stars are about 500 times more concentrated than in the solar neighborhood. The age of M13 has been determined by Sandage as 24 billion years and by Arp as 17 billion years around 1960 Arp later (in 1962) revised his value to 14 billion years (taken from Kenneth Glyn Jones). | AL2 | 11 | Still
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field | The Hubble Ultra Deep Field- or HUDF- is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax- composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 24- 2003 through January 16- 2004. It is the deepest image of the universe ever taken in visible light- looking back (to when the universe is thought to have been 800 million years old) approximately 13 billion years ago. The HUDF contains an estimated 10-000 galaxies. | AL2 | 12 | Still
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Andromeda Galaxy | Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda s image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. Andromeda is frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier s list of diffuse sky objects. M31 is so distant it takes about two million years for light to reach us from there. Much about M31 remains unknown- including why the center contains two nuclei. | AL2 | 13 | Still
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Small Magellanic Cloud | The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy. It contains several hundred million stars. Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular. It still contains a central bar structure. At a distance of about 200-000 light-years- it is one of the Milky Way s nearest neighbors. It is also one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye. | AL2 | 14 | Still
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Crab Nebula X-ray | The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1- NGC 1952- Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed in the western world in 1731 by John Bevis- and corresponds to a bright supernova that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. Located at a distance of about 6-500 light-years (2 kpc) from Earth- the nebula has a diameter of 11 ly (3.4 pc) and is expanding at a rate of about 1-500 kilometers per second. | AL2 | 15 | Still
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Crab Nebula Optical | The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1- NGC 1952- Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed in the western world in 1731 by John Bevis- and corresponds to a bright supernova that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. Located at a distance of about 6-500 light-years (2 kpc) from Earth- the nebula has a diameter of 11 ly (3.4 pc) and is expanding at a rate of about 1500 kilometers per second. | AL2 | 16 | Still
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Large Magellanic Cloud | The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (?160-000 light-years). It has a mass equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of our Sun making it roughly 1/10 as massive as the Milky Way. | AL2 | 17 | Still
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Moon Formation | These results hardly depend on the initial condition of the disk as long as the mass of the disk is 2 to 4 times the present lunar mass and most mass of the disk exists inside the Roche limit. The time scale of the disk evolution is determined mainly by the surface density of the disk. The evolution of the disk is summarized as follows The disk contracts through the mutual collisions of disk particles. Gravitational instability takes place and particle clumps grow inside the Roche limit. The clumps are elongated by the Kepler shear- which forms spiral arms (non-axisymmetric structure). Particles are transfered to the outside of the Roche limit due to the gravitational torque exerted by the spiral arms. When a spiral arm is extended beyond the Roche limit- the tip of the spiral arm collapses to form a small moonlet. The rapid accretion of these small moonlets forms a lunar seed. The seed exclusively grows by sweeping up particles transfered over the Roche limit. The formation time scale of the moon is of the order of a month. | AL2 | 18 | Clip
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Orion Nebula 3D | "Working with infrared and visible light observations from Hubble and ground-based imagery- C.R. O Dell and Zheng Wen of Rice University USA derived a 3D model of the inner surface of the hollowed out center of the nebula. Their model shows that the region is a wrinkled shallow valley the surface of which glows from the influence of the young stars above. The ionizing effects of the trapezium s stars penetrate a limited distance into the nebula. The glow we see is the result of a thin glowing ionization layer atop the valley. Dust in this surface region also reflects starlight contributing to the total luminosity." | AL2 | 19 | Clip
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M31 hits Milky Way | In 3 billion years our neighbouring galaxy Andromeda and the Milky Way will fall together and have a close collision. They will likely merge and be reborn as a single giant elliptical galaxy over the course of another billion years or so. | AL2 | 20 | Clip
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Star Formation - Cluster | The Formation of Stars and Brown Dwarfs and the Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs in a Star Cluster Simulation & visualisation by Matthew Bate University of Exeter unless stated otherwise. | AL2 | 21 | Clip
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Moon Phases | Moon Phases angular size changes natational motion | AL2 | 22 | Clip
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