Pluto Not a Planet‚ Astronomers Rule Pluto has been voted off the island. The distant‚ ice-covered world is no longer a true planet‚ according to a new definition of the term voted on by scientists today "Whoa! Pluto’s dead‚" said astronomer Mike Brown‚ of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena‚ as he watched a Webcast of the vote. "There are finally‚ officially‚ eight planets in the solar system." In a move that’s already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten
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Shoemaker is a comet that hit the planet Jupiter in July of 1994. It was discovered by three expert comet detectors‚ Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker‚ and David Levy‚ in 1992. The comet originated its name by its discoverers the “Shoemaker- Levy 9: Comet”. As information came it they started to realize that the comet had been orbiting Jupiter and not the Sun itself. They discovered that the comet might have even been orbiting the planet as late as the year 1966. The impacts ended up being a multi-day
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destroying our planet? We should think about our earth’s condition day by day because our planet is in great danger. We are very lucky that we can enjoy everything on earth like water‚ air‚ natural resource and others to be enjoyed. Nowadays we all know and realize how important it is to protect our planet‚ but we are mostly too busy or too lazy to make a big change that would improve our lifestyle and save the environment. Many simple ways we can do to take part to conserve our planet such as recycle
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Week 4 Assignment 1 Angel Vance REL 212 Laila Khalid Ghauri This week’s assignment is about religious life on planet earth. There are many different types of religion all over the world‚ and people are always free to pick what religion that they want to join or follow. There is never any one specific kind of religion that everyone follows. Religion can be found all over the place‚ and can be seen in things that people do every day. Some religions chant‚ some pray‚ and some have rituals that
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Olivia Castillo Eng. 110 Mr. Lewenstein 10/23/14 Save the Planet Essay In today’s society‚ people are exposing our planet to more harmful chemicals every day. The chemicals are able to help in succeeding with some experiments and new inventions‚ but too much of it is causing great damage to our environment. For example‚ contamination of chemicals can occur in the water we drink. In-taking the water is dangerous for everyone and can most likely affect our health. Also‚ too many chemicals can add
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5th period Planet of the Apes Influences The Planet of the Apes carries a great many influences from the 60’s from religion‚ science‚ to civil‚ women‚ and animal rights. This movie is less for entertainment and more of a social warning to the audience. The three most obvious influences are the fear of nuclear war‚ the space race‚ and separation of church and state. The Influence of the space race is hit on at the start of the movie as Taylor is seen inside of a space craft. The space race
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Forbidden Planet is probably the best science fiction movie made in the 1950s and for good reason. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest inspired the entire basis for the story and characters. Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright from the 16th century‚ and generally regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. It is no wonder that the inspiration for the movie Forbidden Planet remains fresh and exciting to watch as it was over 60 years ago. Forbidden Planet is a story about an
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In Planet of Slums‚ Davis discusses the roots of slums in relation to urban poverty in the post-modern era as well as its social‚ political‚ economical and ecological consequences. This essay might ring a bell to many as a duplication of the famous UN-HABITAT’s report in 2003 on the challenge of slums; however in my opinion‚ what Davis is attempting to do here is an exploration to the roots of urban poverty on a global scale rather than within local state governance‚ and also with references to the
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I’m here to talk about the little planet named Pluto. I personally think it’s unfair to the planet to be named something and then drawn back‚ Then again they had hard evidence on to why they did it. So I am going to give you the top reasons on why they took its righteous calling of a planet back. One of the main problems is its size. Many people thought it was too small to be called a planet and referred to it as the star. Ryan C. of the planetary society said: “ Pluto is a Disney character who has
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Is there life on other planet? The life in the Earth was created long before‚ even before the existence of human being. For many years‚ scientists have been researching if there is any life on other planets‚ or the Earth is only the planet that consist life. There is no sufficient evidence to prove that life on other planet exists‚ however‚ scientists have found some evidence of life on other planets like water on moon‚ old fossil‚ evideince of having some mocroscopic organism. Evolutionists have
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