The article summarized below is from THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (issue Dec.97) by William R. Newcott. It tells about how comets are important and their effect on earth and its people.<br><br>Comets are leftover scrubs of material that did not make it to planethood in the events creating our solar system. They orbit in a perpetual Deepfreeze until some subtle gravitational nudge upsets the delicate balance. The Great Falls begins. First a snowball drifts towards the sun and steadily accelerates. As solar
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1. Which of the following is not one of Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion? A) As a planet orbits the sun‚ it sweeps out equal areas in equal time. B) The closer a planet is to the sun‚ the slower it moves in its orbit. C) A planet’s orbit is an ellipse‚ with the sun at one focus. D) The more distant a planet’s orbit is from the sun‚ the longer it takes to complete an orbit. Table for Individual Question Feedback Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): B 2. What are the three
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Albert Maldonado 5/14/14 Rice Outline: Mars One AP English IV Thesis: In the Mars One Mission‚ the hopeful explorers will face three main problems: the budget is too ambitious‚ getting to Mars will be a difficult task‚ and terraforming Mars is harder than it seems. I. Introduction A. Something interesting B. Thesis statement II. To begin with‚ Mars One’s budget is far too low and won’t get the funds it needs. A. Set budget not enough 1. Say they need $6 billion 2. Forget
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On this day 442 years ago one of the greatest astronomically skilled mathematicians were born‚ his name was Johannes Kepler. He was born around one o’clock in the afternoon. His parents were Katharina Kepler‚ and Heinrich Kepler. He grew up in a very poor family with his father being a soldier‚ and his mom an herbalist‚ or healer. He suffered from smallpox at the age of four and his father past away when he was five. Contributions that he made to math were that he made laws of planetary motion
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The Solar and Heliosheric observatory also known as the SOHO became a project among the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The SOHO was created to investigate our suns internal structure. The suns internal structure consists of its outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind. SOHO was originally launched on December 2‚ 1995. The space craft was created in Europe and the instruments were provided by both European and American scientists. During the mission‚ SOHO discovered a very rare periodic
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“All a joke!” said the boy‚ and seized her roughly. In the story All summer in A Day‚ a short story by Ray Bradbury‚ Margot‚ a small timid girl gets one of her wishes ripped away from her. It was the first day in seven years that the sun would appear in the planet of Venus. Everybody in Margot’s class didn’t believe the stories she told them from when she lived on planet Earth. The day th sun would be coming out‚ Margot told the class what was going to happen‚ but as usual they just ignored her and
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• When I came into the clinic I was greeted by Patrick and Monica. They showed me around the clinic. I was also introduced to Liah‚ Antinique‚ and the rest of the team. With no hesitation I started to help Antinique with a patient that came in for a dental and a mass removal; it was a schnauzer named Jackpot. Antinique was filling out some information in the records and asked me if I can pull up 0.5ml of hydromorphone and 3.0ml of penicillin. The patient’s records were written on index cards and
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Deriving Kepler’s Laws Tanner Morrison November 16‚ 2012 Abstract Johannes Kepler‚ a world renowned mathematician and astronomer‚ formulated three of today’s most influential laws of physics. These laws describe planetary motion around the sun. Deriving these laws (excluding Kepler’s First Law) will stress the concept of planetary motion‚ as well as provide a clear understanding of how these laws became relevant. 1 Kepler’s First Law Kepler’s First Law states: The orbit of every
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| 2012 | | THE GOOD‚ THE BAD AND THE UGLY Shirley Carter Everest Online | [the good‚ the bad‚ and the ugly…] | The Good‚ the Bad and the ugly The lady that was known as “The Voice” stated (Winfrey‚ 2009 interview) was someone special above and beyond. People paid hundreds of dollars and waited in line for tickets; some bought her CD’s and soon learned the lyrics to some of her songs was this beautiful diva name Whitney E. Houston. Born and raised in Newark New Jersey (Wikipedia‚ 2012
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The stories‚ “Harrison Bergeron” and “All Summer in a Day”‚ both portray humanity’s reactions to people’s differences as being negative and being disliked. In “Harrison Bergeron” humans with differences greater than that of the average human is‚ as a result of attempted equality‚ controlled by the government using handicaps. The story “All Summer in a Day” however‚ takes place on the planet of Venus where the rain only stops once every seven years. As a result‚ all of the children do not have any
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