The Perseid Meteor Shower (pur-see-id) is one of the most famous meteor showers. This is not only because of the exceedingly high amount of meteors‚ but also due to its lengthy appearance in the night sky. The Perseids can occupy the sky for up to six weeks between the middle of July and the end of August. The Perseids can be seen when Earth passes through Comet Swift-Tuttle‚ however‚ the most meteors will be visible when Earth passes through the densest‚ dustiest area of Swift-Tuttle. The
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A long‚ long time ago‚ there was one massive rock in the middle of the universe. All of a sudden‚ the rock exploded and pieces flew everywhere. These pieces started to flame up. They were called stars. The ones that weren’t on fire were called planets. There was a very unusual thing that happened on one of the planets called Earth. There was a man that appeared out of nowhere and he had a very special power. He could create anything that he wanted on command. This man’s name was Dadquois Earth was
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Description of the Event In a concurrence that still has NASA specialists shaking their heads‚ a small asteroid completely unrelated to 2012 DA14 struck Earth only hours before the publicized event. The impactor flew unexpectedly‚ literally from the direction of the sun where no telescope could see it‚ and took everyone by surprise as the meteor speckled across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains. The large fireball was observed on the morning of Feb. 15‚ 2013‚ in the skies near Chelyabinsk‚
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The Vega star has many different characteristics and properties when compared to other stars. The star is a white main sequence star‚ meaning in is in class A. The Vega is a blue to white star with a temperature of approximately 17‚000 F (9‚500 C) and is already 455 million years old. It is surrounded by a large disc of dust and debris‚ which may be from that planetary collisions. The Vega star is 25 light years away from the earth and the mass is 2.1 times bigger than the sun’s mass. Also compared
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The stripes of Jupiter go deep under the surface‚ reveals Juno probe A new discovery has been made about planet Jupiter’s stripes and the findings suggest that the stripes are much deeper than scientists had previously thought. NASA’s Juno probe has revealed many interesting facts about Jupiter‚ reports Space.com. The probe says that the bold and colorful stripes run deep down the surface of the planet. They are actually clouds‚ which optical light cannot penetrate and thus‚ it is difficult to detect
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ASTEROIDS Did you know that there are really millions of planets orbiting the Sun? Apart from nine “proper” planets‚ there are a few million‚ minor ones‚ called asteroids. These are different chunks of rock‚ which range from specks of dust to those which are a few kilometres across. Most of them travel in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter called the asteroid belt. Others follow different orbits. In the 18th century‚ astronomers were convinced that a missing world existed between Mars and Jupiter
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In the film‚ Contact‚ the protagonist Dr. Arroway is a part of the SETI program‚ which tries to contact other species from different planets. However‚ the antagonist David Drumlin tries to discourage Dr. Arroway from any further progress. Nevertheless‚ when Dr. Arroway is contacted by species from the star Vega this causes people to question faith and science. Protestors start to form to complain about the achievement‚ viewing the communication with Vega as a turpitude against God. The problems that
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MGS32015E Global Human Resource Management Spring 2012 MANAGING A GLOBAL TEAM: GREG JAMES AT SUN MICROSYSTEMS‚ INC. Overview of SUN Microsystems Inc. Sun Microsystems I nc. (SUN) provided companies with complete information technology (IT) solutions that included hardware‚ software‚ storage and services. One of Sun ’ s competitive strategies had been to form global teams in order to provide excellent and prompt support to its client at any hour of the day. Greg James is the global
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Connection A microsystem is represented as the first environmental an individual encounters‚ for example a child’s family‚ teachers‚ and friends at school. Relationships in this system are bi-directional. In the book Readings on the Development of Children‚ authors Mary Gauvain & Michael Cole explains Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory further into detail. The chapter “Ecological Models of Human Development” the authors explain that a child’s reaction to the people in their microsystem will affect
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LEAD – Managing a Global Team: Sun Microsystems – 9/16/2010 Situation * HS Holdings (HSH)‚ enterprise customer with online banking‚ had servers go down * Sun’s CS team didn’t respond‚ servers stayed down for 2 hours‚ cost HS Holdings thousands * HSH has $300k/yr premium contract for 24/7 service: potentially violated by outage‚ threatening suit * Flow of crisis * Praveen D. got call from HSH‚ pages on-call after-hours US manager 3x‚ MISTAKE: used weekday number not weekend
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