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    Save The Planet

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    Save the planet Nobody likes to live in 23 hundred miles round trip earth has been around for 4.5 billion yaers‚ the planet has been around for a long time and it has the ability to regenarate economize resources manage waste we’re part of something greater Because we’re not saving the planet we are saving ourselves A couple of months ago‚ I got into my car‚ put on my seatbelt‚ put on my sunglasses and drove south. 23 hundred miles round trip. I went to cabo and I got to see some

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    Age of the Universe

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    dust then clustered to grains‚ to lumps‚ to boulders‚ to planetesimas. Soon it became chunks of rock big enough to have their own gravitational field. So‚ some plantesimals became the embryonic form of planets in our solar system today. As more asteroids and other planets collided with planet earth‚ crust began to cool and water began to form and collect on the surface. References Age of the Earth . (2007‚ July 9). USGS.

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    management safeguards our planet’s remaining resources. With the exploration of space new opportunities arise to gather new resources from other worlds and celestial bodies. Asteroids in particular can be highly profitable with their high concentrations of Industrial and precious metals. Scientists estimate relatively small asteroids could contain more than 20 trillion dollars worth of industrial and precious metals. While space mining is still in its infancy. The most important resource involved with

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    The juxtaposition of the orderly house and the destroyed‚ chaotic neighborhood around it paints a stark picture that‚ at first‚ makes the reader wonder what what is happening. The clues about what has happened come out in the sixth and seventh paragraphs: "The house stood alone in a city of rubbleand ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles". There Will Come Soft Rains" is one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous stones

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    questions “Are we alone in the universe?” or “How did life begin?” By discover new answers‚ we will have a further understanding of our solar system and world around us. There are always a risk of catastrophic event could happen to earth as if an asteroid could hit earth or a solar storm could wipe out the earth. By space

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    billion years d.  46 billion years 2. Which of the following was not a source of heat for the early Earth? a.  meteor bombardment b.  gravitational contraction c.  radioactivity d.  hydrothermal energy 3. What are small asteroids called? a.  comets b.  meteoroids c.  cratons d.  microcontinents 4. What is the process by which a planet becomes internally zoned when heavy materials sink toward its center and lighter materials accumulate near its surface?

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    How the Sun Got its Name

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    eight planets and their natural satellites (such as our moon); dwarf planets; asteroids and comets. Our solar system is located in an outward spiral of the Milky Way galaxy. 10 Need-to-Know Things About Our Solar System: 1. Our solar system is made up of the sun and everything that travels around it. This includes eight planets and their natural satellites such as Earth’s moon; dwarf planets such as Pluto and Ceres; asteroids; comets and meteoroids 2. The sun is the center of our solar system

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    ideas too far‚ for three reasons to be exact. The first reason being that “Lyell argued that no events of a kind never seen by humans had ever played and important geologic role” (Stanley‚ 2015). An example of this‚ according to the textbook‚ is the asteroid impacts that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This is

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    that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles‚ but all the visible stuff in it- the Sun‚ the planets and their moons‚ the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt‚ comets and other miscellaneous drifting detritus- fills less than a trillionth of the available space.” 4. CHAPTER 3‚ THE REVERAND EVAN’S UNIVERSE- “Looking into the past is‚ of course‚ the easy part. Glance at the night sky and what you

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    Recent occurrence of Meteor Shower On most nights‚ an attentive observer might expect to see between two and ten meteors per hour‚ depending on the season and time: more meteors are seen in the autumn‚ and rates are highest as dawn approaches. This activity pattern for random‚ background sporadic meteors is enhanced at certain times of year by the occurrence of meteor showers. Meteor showers occur at the same time each year‚ as Earth in its annual orbit around the Sun ploughs through streams of

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