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    Adler Planetarium

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    Adler Planetarium. This paper would discuss about the hand on experience that was obtained when I toured the Adler Planetarium located in Chicago and witnessed the exhibits and the show about the “Cosmic Collision”‚ which was a breathtaking tour around the space. The tour to the planetarium was really a wonderful experience in adding more value and flavor to the wide range of knowledge gained in the class‚ and it did really help me in grasping the real world experience. The show “Cosmic

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    Science notes Question: What happened in the 5 mass extinctions and how did the extinctions happen? Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction Third largest mass extinction Most life was in the sea 86% of sea life went extinct Trilobites died Brachiopods died Graptolites died An ice age was blamed for this mass extinction They think climate change was the cause for this Fall in sea level Messed up the chemistry of the oceans 443 Mya End of Ordovician period Start of Silurian period Late Devonian mass

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    Phylum Echinodermata

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    Phylum Echinodermata Introduction • Means “spiny skin” in Greek • Echinoderms are found at every ocean depth‚ from the intertidal zone to the abyssal zone. The phylum contains about 6500-7000 living species‚ making it the second-largest grouping of deuterostomes (a superphylum)‚ after the chordates. • Echinoderms are also the largest phylum that has no freshwater or terrestrial (land-based) representatives. Defining characteristics: • A complex series of fluid-filled canals

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    most hazardous aspects of tsunamis? Tsunami s are a series of giant sea waves created when a large volume of a body of water‚ such as an ocean‚ is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions‚ landslides‚ asteroid impacts‚ and other mass movements above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Due to the immense volumes of water and energy involved‚ the effects of tsunamis can be devastating. Their hazards can be split into primary and

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    scientists believe colonies will be self sustaining through asteroid mining which are projected to yield far greater profits than any rare metal mining on Earth. Planetary Resources is a company that already tackles with the business of Asteroid Mining. Companies like Planetary Resources hope to exploit the rare metals and water from the asteroid for profit. Board members of Google and other tech moguls are large investors in Asteroid

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    Mass Extinction

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    Physical Geology Essay Assignment: Mass Extinctions Topic: The Cretaceous - Tertiary extinction Submitted by Suhaidee Yusoh ID No. 15240 Petroleum Geosciences UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 1. Introduction Fastovsky‚ D.E. and Weishampel‚ D.B.‚ 2005 defined the mass extinction “Mass extinctions involve large numbers of species and many types of species undergoing global extinction in a geologically short period of time”‚ organisms have gone extinct‚ certainly

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    impact team began searching for the cause of the K-T extinctions. <br><li>His evidence of impact was enrichment of the chemical‚ iridium‚ in a thin layer of clay a few centimenters thick at the K-T boundary. His original theory held that a giant asteroid struck earth 65 million years ago‚ blasting so much dust into the atmosphere that it blocked out sunlight‚ and plunged earth into the blackness and cold of a sudden‚ short-duration‚ "impact winter." <br><li>According to Alvarez theory‚ the global

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    audience Princess Leia’s innocent and dignity. Asteroid Field presents the unpredictable flying chase in the asteroid field. Williams uses syncopated melody with articulations such as accents and staccatos; sudden changes of dynamics to depict the unpredictable and fearful atmosphere at the asteroid field. Main string melodies with percussion accompaniment and allegro tempo creates the tense‚ worried feel and portrays the fast chasing around the asteroid field. The use of polyphonic texture and minor

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    GS 1140 Future Statement

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    over Afghanistan from an Unmanned Pilot based right outside Las Vegas‚ Nevada. Today we are capable of conducting unmanned missions to Mars to learn and discover the uninhabited planet. NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s. Mars is the 4th planet from the sun. It has always been the 3rd race in space since man first reached space and man landed on the moon. Mars has had robotic explorers study the planet for over 40 years. Ever since the

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    Life As We Knew It Theme

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    In the dystopian novel‚ Life As We Knew It‚ by Susan Beth Pfeffer the world looks like it’s coming to an end. An asteroid has hit the moon‚ knocking it into a closer orbit which completely throws off the weather and 17 year old Miranda Evans normal life. The asteroid causes all kinds of disasters that bring the world to a halt. Without grocery stores‚ heat‚ water‚ and limited food‚ Miranda and her family face problems together and struggle to survive. One theme I noticed in this book is things are

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