The asteroid‚ more commonly known as the starfish‚ or sea star‚ is an invertebrate that lives mainly in an oceanic environment. These unique and unusual creatures have a number of arms that protrude away from their spiny skinned bodies. The exact number of arms depends on the species; some have only three‚ and the most is 42. Most people commonly associate the starfish with having five arms. However‚ there are many species of starfish that have 3‚ 4‚ 6‚ 7‚ and 8 arms. Each arm that extends out of
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it all imagination? When reports are made by professional people it further verifies that strange occurrences are happening. The Universe is immense and impossible for man kind to fully explore in our current state of advancement. Meteors and asteroids constantly impact the earth and it is not being far fetched to believe alien species arrive into our environment all the time. Many scientists believe that humans evolved from different life forms brought to earth in this way. Watch Alien Autopsy
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I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: How many authors can you name that went from rags to riches in five years‚ created the outline for a million dollar story on a train‚ and has an asteroid and a dinosaur named after her? B. Tie-to-topic: Well‚ Joanne Kathleen Rowling is all that and more. C. Thesis: Today I would like to inform you about J.K. Rowling. D. First‚ we will look at her early life; secondly we will look at the books she has written in her career. Finally‚ we
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We are “star stuff”. Discuss in detail our connections to the stars as established by modern astronomy. Modern astronomy has allowed us to understand how the universe functions and also provides the answers to some of the big questions. Questions like the origin of the universe and origin of life itself. It tells us that stars are the cosmic furnaces where all most all the building blocks of life and planets were synthesized. Lighter‚ basic and abundant elements like hydrogen and helium
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recreation of the surface of mars or more specifically the Candor Chasma Canyons with 15‚000 foot cliffs. The last exhibit we looked at before we had to go into the show was of a museum host talking about the Kuiper belt which is kind of like a asteroid belt but instead of being all rock‚ ice and metal the Kuiper belt is mostly frozen methane‚ ammonia and water. The wildest weather show was pretty amazing with the screen all around us creating a dome and every thing else being completely dark
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The Solar System The majority of the solar system is made up of the sun and all of the planets that orbit it. There are also moons‚ comets‚ asteroids‚ dust‚ gas‚ and dwarf planets. The sun makes up about 98 percent of our solar system. Because of the suns large mas it pulls every thing in the solar system towards it. The planets orbit around the sun because of the sun pulling it towards it and the planets trying to fly outer space at the same time‚ which balances it out. It was once believed that
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past‚ improving the studies and discoveries. Telescopes have changed many views of the universe. The first view that was changed is that the Earth is not the center of the universe. The telescope allows viewing of mountains and craters of the moon‚ asteroids‚ new planets‚ etc. (NASA‚ 2010). The telescope has also allowed scientists to properly measure the speed of light and to understand the light of stars and Sun‚ (NASA‚ 2010). While telescopes have opened up a new world of opportunities‚ there are
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Benjamin Hastings April 10‚ 2013 Did Someone Move in Down the Street? An Exploration of Possible Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe‚ Perhaps Our Own System Other life in the universe just makes sense. Think about it‚ there are trillions of other stars in existence in our universe‚ and most of those stars have satellites‚ and those satellites have satellites. There are literally hundreds of trillions‚ if not more‚ planets or planet-sized satellites orbiting stars. To think that none of these
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The smooth Borealis basin in the northern hemisphere covers 40% of the planet and may be a giant impact feature. Mars has two known moons‚ Phobos and Deimos‚ which are small and irregularly shaped. These may be captured asteroids ‚ similar to5261 Eureka‚ a Martian trojan asteroid. Mars is currently host to five functioning spacecraft: three in orbit – the Mars Odyssey‚ Mars Express‚ and Mars Reconnaissance Obiter; and two on the surface – Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity
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spark created the planets‚ stars‚ and galaxies we know and learn about now. We also know this because of random glows from all around the universe left from the big bang these glows are known as cosmic background information. The planets were first asteroid like blocks that collided with one another to create planets this happened over many years and formed planets all around the universe. The Doppler effect is a part in showing us more about the universe and waves it produces the Doppler effect is
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