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PASADENA — The Fourth of July began with a bang here early Monday morning as NASA’s Deep Impact mission collided with history. [1]

The primary task (DIXI or Deep Impact eXtended Investigation) is to fly past comet Hartley 2 in 2010. [2]

This animation shows a conceptualized view of Deep Impact’s encounter with comet Tempel 1. [3]

“There is a comet up in the sky wondering, what in the heck just happened,” said JPL director Charles Elachi during a post-collision press conference. [1]

Along the way (Jan-Aug 2008) the spacecraft observed planets around other stars (EPOCh). [...] Although the original Deep Impact mission is done, the spacecraft is in working order. [2]

The $333 million mission to crash an 820-pound (371-kilogram) Impactor probe into the avocado-shaped Comet Tempel 1 and record the event via a Flyby mothership was a complete success. [1]

It was designed to study the composition of the comet interior of 9P/Tempel, by releasing an impactor into the comet. [4]

Take a tour through the Gallery and see all of our images, animations and drawings. [3]

Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched on January 12, 2005. [4]

Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. [5]

Browse through our gallery of images and videos. [2]

The Deep Impact was reported as healthy after managing to track Impactor’s collision with Tempel 1 down to about 50 meters, then turn its imaging lenses away from the comet to guard them from debris as the spacecraft passed underneath the nucleus. [1]

NASA gave it two new tasks under the mission name of EPOXI. [2]

Artist’s conception of the Deep Impact space probe after impactor separation. [4]

Sources:
[1] Afterglow: NASA Laud’s Deep Impact’s Comet Collision | Space.com
[2] Deep Impact: Your First Look Inside a Comet!
[3] Deep Impact: Gallery:
[4] Deep Impact (spacecraft) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Deep Impact (1998) - IMDb

Pueblo is a Spanish word meaning “town” that refers to twenty aggregated Native American communities on the Colorado Plateau in northern New Mexico and Arizona. [1]

There is something for every type of mountain biker in the Pueblo area. [2]

Chile Sloppers are famous in Pueblo, CO. [3]

Welcome to beautiful Pueblo, Colorado - the gateway to Southeast Colorado! [2]

Back to Pueblo, CO housing info, Pueblo County, Colorado, CO smaller cities, CO small cities, All Cities. [4]

A city of southeast-central Colorado south-southeast of Colorado Springs. [1]

And if you’re fortunate enough to visit Pueblo in late August or early September, you just might catch the annual Colorado State Fair, nearly two weeks of carnivals, livestock shows, rodeos and concerts. [5]

From monster trucks and beloved Fiesta Day to carnival rides and livestock auctions, the Colorado State Fair is amplified family fun. [2]

The arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1872, combined with the availability of coal, came together to create what later was known as the Steel City, which became Pueblo’s identity. [5]

The Pueblo County Courthouse has a large brass top easily seen from Interstate 25 to the east. [6]

New Mexico became part of the United States in 1848. [1]

Pueblo is situated at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek 103 miles (166 km) south of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. [6]

Witness the revitalization of the Union Avenue Historic District and the completely rebuilt El Pueblo Museum, which honors the area’s history and cultural diversity. [5]

Arnold Gallegos says whenever a convention or festival arrives in Pueblo, the staff at Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce recommends that visitors contact his company. [3]

Downtown events often revolve around the Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center and adjacent Buell Children’s Museum, which has won national recognition for excellence. [5]

Sources:
[1] Pueblo: Map, History from Answers.com
[2] Pueblo, Colorado: Official Community Website | Pueblo.org …
[3] Pueblo, CO | Images Pueblo Relocation Magazine
[4] Pueblo, Colorado (CO) profile: population, maps, real estate …
[5] Pueblo, Colorado - The Official Site of Colorado Tourism …
[6] Pueblo, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

White House environmental adviser Van Jones resigned late Saturday after a simmering controversy over his past statements and activism erupted into calls for his ouster from Republican leaders on Friday. [1]

For these issues, Van Jones was heavily criticized by conservatives. [2]

Van Jones is a self-proclaimed radical communist activist who was appointed by Barack Obama to serve as the Obama administration ’s “Green Czar”. [3]

As soon as ABC News discovers more video of this radical Communist who is advising our President on green jobs, I will bring it to you. [4]

As WND previously reported, Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist. [5]

In addition, as an adviser to the Council on Environmental Quality, rather than to Obama directly, his past was not reviewed to the same degree as the more senior “assistants to the president” and other top advisers inside the West Wing. [1]

Jones and Frappier ran police monitoring organization CopWatch, together, then in 1996 the pair established the Oakland California based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. [6]

The president does not endorse Jones’s past statements and actions, “but he thanks him for his service,” Gibbs said. [1]

Anthony K. “Van” Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American environmental advocate, civil rights activist, and attorney. [...] In March 2009 Jones was appointed by President Barack Obama to the newly created position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he worked with various “agencies and departments to advance the administration’s climate and energy initiatives, with a special focus on improving vulnerable communities.” [2]

In Reclaiming Revolution, STORM editors discussed their self critical evaluation of accusations other groups made that STORM considered itself the revolutionary vanguard of Marxism. [...] In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were co-sponsors of the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a left wing anti-Semitic front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP). [3]

He does not appear to have distanced himself from his past communist activities and is now part of the Obama administration’s push to turn Sept. 11 into a National Day of Service focused on the promotion of the radical environmentalist agenda. [5]

In 2005, Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the “Social Equity Track” for the United Nations ‘ World Environment Day celebration, held that year in San Francisco. [2]

Anthony K. (Van) Jones, a Bay Area Marxist radical, was appointed on March 10, 2009 as Green Jobs adviser to the Obama administration-or officially Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). [6]

Sources:
[1] White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over …
[2] Van Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Van Jones - Conservapedia
[4] Van Jones
[5] Barack Obama — Van Jones
[6] Van Jones - KeyWiki

Save up to $50 on KODAK Mini Video Cameras. [1]

The roll film used in the first model of the Kodak camera had a paper base but was soon superseded by a film with a cellulose base, a practical, transparent, flexible film. [2]

With the KODAK SLICE Touchscreen Camera, you can carry your pictures everywhere-without taking up space on your memory card. [...] The SLICE features a built-in photo album that lets you view and organize a portable version of your entire photo collection via the vibrant touchscreen display. [3]

Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing. [2]

And when you press Kodak’s Share button, you can tag pictures for upload directly to KODAK Gallery, YouTube, FACEBOOK, and FLICKR sites, as well as e-mail. [3]

It includes the contents of the Kodak Heritage Collection Museum, a museum established in 1999 for Kodak Canada’s contennial but which Kodak closed in 2005 along with the company’s entire ‘Kodak Heights’ manufacturing campus in Mount Dennis, Toronto. [2]

Preservation was completed by the museum’s Motion Picture Department, a project of Sabrina Negri, a student in Eastman House’s L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and a recipient of the Haghefilm Foundation Fellowship. [...] A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see. [...] The new Kodak EasyShare Z981 1020304 Digital Camera is where creativity and versatility come together. [...] A pedestrian walks past the Rochester, N.Y., headquarters of Eastman Kodak Co., in this Wednesday, July 20, 2005 file photo. [3]

Kodak’s origins rest with Eastman Dry Plate Company, and the General Aristo Company, founded by inventor George Eastman in Rochester and Jamestown, New York. [2]

The winning product was an advanced manufacturing tool that uses laser imaging to produce color filters for Liquid Crystal Displays (specifically, large LCD televisions) in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way. [3]

Through the development of microfilm technology, Eastman Kodak was able to provide business and government with a solution for long term document storage. [2]

NZ Herald Investors dumped Eastman Kodak’s stock Friday amid fears that the photography pioneer is headed toward bankruptcy. [3]

Sources:
[1] Eastman Kodak Company
[2] Eastman Kodak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Kodak

Raffaele Sollecito is the Italian boyfriend of Amanda Knox. [1]

PERUGIA, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 30: General Prosecutor Giancarlo Costagliola and Public prosecutor Manuela Comodi (R) attend the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito appeal hearing in Perugia ’s Court of Appeal on September 30, 2011 in Perugia, Italy. [2]

Amanda Knox Amanda Knox is back in court in Italy, appealing their convictions for 2007, high profile murder of Meredith Kercher, Schwester publicly appealed for justice. [...] Allegedly, Meredith Kercher refused to take part in an orgy with Raffaele and Amanda - so Amanda stabbed her with a pocket knife. [1]

Amanda Knox’s appeal took what her lawyers called a positive step Saturday when an Italian court appointed two independent experts to review DNA evidence found on the knife allegedly used to murder her roommate.Read More [...] An American college student convicted of a twisted sex slay in Italy delivered a passionate speech on Saturday in her defense in a desperate attempt to overturn her sentence.Read More [3]

Defendant Amanda Knox takes a seat next to her lawyers on the final day of the Meredith Kercher murder trial on December 4, 2009 in Perugia, Italy. [1]

The murder of Meredith Kercher occurred in Perugia, Italy, on 1 November 2007. [...] Forensic pathologists concluded strangulation had been attempted, and then her neck was stabbed, causing fatal bleeding. [...] She was found lying partially clothed under a duvet in her locked bedroom, with blood on the floor, bed and walls. [4]

Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are charged with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia on November 1, 2007. [1]

Raffaele’s computer could have provided valuable evidence for Raffaele’s defense, but the evidence was destroyed by the police. [...] There is no credible evidence linking Raffaele Sollecito to the murder of Meredith Kercher. [5]

The 23-year-old American, found guilty of murdering her British roommate in a drug-fueled sex game in Italy, was sickened when she saw clips from the upcoming TV movie about her trial.Read More [3]

The prosecution claimed Raffaele’s DNA was on a severed bra clasp found in Meredith’s room. [5]

Sources:
[1] Raffaele Sollecito - Zimbio
[2] Raffaele Sollecito - News, photos, topics, and quotes
[3] Raffaele Sollecito
[4] Road Runner: News, photos, topics, and quotes on Raffaele …
[5] Raffaele Sollecito