dinosaurs were not so lucky‚ with an asteroid measuring six miles across‚ it wiped about seventy percent of all life on Earth and changed the climate with its debris. There are millions of asteroids between the belts of Mars and Jupiter and with collisions bound to happen‚ Jupiter will eventually hurl some toward Earth. The asteroid TC3 history can be traced back to many years ago‚ where two bodies collided forming TC3 and KU2. When this incident occurred‚ TC3 was spun in the direction of Earth‚ with
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_________________________ Exam 1 (chap 1-5) I. Multiple Choice. Select all correct answers. 1. Which of the planets known to the ancient astronomers can never be seen high overhead at night? a) Mercury b) Venus c) Mars d)Saturn e) Jupiter 2. On the first day of spring‚ the Sun sets a) north of west b) directly west c) south of west d) can’t answer‚ it depends where you are on Earth. 3. One-hundred arcminutes is a) exactly 1 degree b) about 0.5 degree
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THE ROMAN RELIGION As the Roman Empire grew‚ it came across several different religions. “As the empire expanded across the Balkans‚ Asia Minor and into Egypt‚ Roman religion absorbed many of the gods and cults of conquered nations‚ but the primary influence would always remain Greece” (Wasson‚ Donald). After the Romans conquered Greece‚ they adapted the gods the Greeks were worshipping. Most‚ if not all‚ of the Greek deities were renamed and given slightly different characteristics. Not only were
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Northeastern University Studies in American Fiction: Volume 34 Number 2 (Autumn 2006) October 01‚ 2006 Studies in American Fiction John Cheever’s Shady Hill‚ or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the suburbs Keith Wilhite University of Iowa Recommended Citation Wilhite‚ Keith. "John Cheever’s Shady Hill‚ or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the suburbs." Studies in American Fiction 34.2 (2006): 215-240. http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d10016661 This work is available open access
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1 & 2 1. The universe created the gods. 2. Heaven and earth. Their children were the titans and the titans children were the gods 3. It was the Olympians home and was usually thought of on top of a mountain but no mortal could go there. 4. Jupiter‚ Pluto‚ Diana‚ Mercury‚ Vesta 5. Hera‚ Poseidon‚ Athena‚ Aphrodite‚ Ares‚ Hephaestus 6. Priests and priestesses in the sacred grove interpreted rustling of the oak leaves 7. The breastplate of Zeus was the aegis and had Medusa’s face on it. Zeus’s
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In Greek mythology‚ Cronus or Kronos was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans‚ the divine descendants of Uranus‚ the sky‚ and Gaia‚ the earth. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age‚ until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe‚ scythe or a sickle‚ which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus‚ his father. In Athens‚ on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion
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about his disbelief of their marriage‚ he does love her. It is unknown how the marriage could be illegitimate though Juno‚ the goddess of marriage‚ confirmed it‚ but this is never answered. Aeneas’ loyalties lie with his son and the future Rome‚ as Jupiter conveys to him though Mercury‚ so this story is one of his maturation. Likewise‚ the tragedy of Dido’s death reveals that her motivations are both to be a true leader and Aeneas’ lover‚ yet she can fulfill neither. She is far more motivated by her
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and becomes a “gas giant”. It is an advantage for it to have a massive planet well outside its orbit‚ like Jupiter to divert potential devastating asteroids away or to make them destroy themselves (as in the asteroid belt). It must have an atmosphere like that on Earth‚ that is dominated by nitrogen and oxygen. It must not be too massive for it might also retain hydrogen and helium like Jupiter. It must not be too low in mass for this will cause the oxygen and nitrogen to escape and only heavier nucleus
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second thought‚ even if someone convinces me there is life on the moon which I know there isnt‚ because some kind of an atmosphere is essential for life to exist which isnt present. NASA talks about finding seas on our moon‚ mars‚ and the moon of Jupiter‚ but is it still proven or a stationary cloud of dust close to the surface of the moon or mars looks like a sea to these man made picture taking satellites. Then this question arises of why is it all there? The space‚ the moon the sun‚ the planets
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Not many people think about it‚ but space missions do a lot for people‚ such as improve their daily life on Earth to exploring neighbor planets more than 1‚000 miles away and beyond. A space mission is a journey made by a spacecraft that is sent into space usually to gather information. There are many space missions‚ although some are more famous than others. Lots of space missions have spinoffs. Something that was made for a space mission that we use in our daily lives now is a spinoff. Some space
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