click on Run Now. 1. Move the slider all the way to accurate‚ click on the tape measure and the grid. 2. Click the radio button for 4 objects and run the simulation until the purple planet (body 2) has made one complete orbit (one year). 3. After the first orbit (year)‚ turn off the traces (show traces box) and watch another orbit (year) of the purple planet (body 2). Question One: Is blue moon (body 3) circling the yellow sun (body 1) or the purple planet (body 2)? Explain your answer. The blue
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Big Morongo Preserve Located in Morongo Valley‚ lies a vast‚ exquisite place of unique wildlife and plants known as the Big Morongo Valley Preserve‚ which is tasked with promoting plant and endangered species growth. Since I’ve hiked the preserve previously‚ this will be a great experience to help with the preservation of the preserve. So I chose my project on September 7th to be the Morongo Preserve. On September 15‚ I read in the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Fall 2017 newsletter that volunteers
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How is man changing environment or biomes? Man is drastically changing the environment with all the needs he has. Humans cut down entire forests in the course of a month. Then we build buildings in its place making it impossible for anything to grow there. Those trees were a crucial part to the ecosystem and environment‚ which are now changed forever. We also drive cars‚ which emit exhaust‚ which in turn hurts our ozone layer and heats up the Earth. Once the ozone layer is damaged the ice caps
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The solar system consists of the Sun and 9 planets revolving around it in different orbits. The statistics of the sun and the planets are given below : SUN Age : About 5 Billion years Distance : 149.8 Million Kms Diameter : 1‚38‚400 Kms. Photosphere temperature : 5‚770 K Core temperature : 150‚000‚000 K Absolute visual magnitude : 4.75 Rotation (as seen from the earth at the equator) : 25.38 days Rotation (near the poles) : 33 days The sun consists of 71% of Hydrogen‚ 26.5% Helium and
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Once known as the ninth planet of the solar system‚ Pluto is now the second-largest dwarf planet. Composed primarily of ice and rock‚ Pluto took part of our Solar System for 76 years. It was discovered on January 23‚ 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked at the Lowell Obeservatory. Tombaugh had been working on a project when he came across a moving object in photographs he had taken of the celestial sky. After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious
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In order to preserve this culture‚ the Australian Indigenous people must pass down their secret customs and traditions to the wider public community of Australia. The Australian Government also reserves the right of using land such as national parks. They also have the
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An Increasingly Globalized Planet In his book A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of Our Incredible Shrinking Planet‚ Alex MacGillivray interprets four historical phases: the Iberian carve-up‚ the Britannic meridian‚ Sputnik world‚ and the global-supply chain. -------------. MacGillivray supports his arguments of movement and trade creating an increasingly globalized planet by giving examples of the ? in the ? phase‚ ? in the ? phase‚ ? in the ? phase‚ and ? in the ? phase. MacGillivray
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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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A Potentially Habitable Planet? A team of astronomers led by Steven Vogt of the University of California‚ and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington have found a rocky earth-sized planet that might be habitable (Haghighipour‚ Nader 2010). The new exoplanet called Gliese 581g orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 581 in the constellation Libra and it is the sixth planet that the astronomers have found around its star. Gliese 581g is about 20 light years away‚ which is roughly 117.5 trillion
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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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