History of Long-Term Comets Have you ever wondered who and how things were discovered? Who named Mars‚ how the names for constellations for created‚ or how long-term or short-term comets were named and discovered? Long-Term comets are comets that have an orbital period greater than 200 years and are 50‚000-70‚000 AU (astronomical units) from the sun. In this paper‚ I will tell you briefly about how long-term comets are named and seen‚ and about two major long-term comets‚ Comet West and Comet Kohoutek
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In the movie “October Sky” by Joe Johnston‚ which is based on a true story written by Homer Hickam Jr. there was a boy with a dream to reach the stars. Homer Hickam watched the first artificial satellite Sputnik launch into space. The launch made Homer realize that he wanted to build a rocket of his own. Homer had faced many obstacles‚ people‚ and he even had to sacrifice his dreams. I think the theme should be - Dream’s are worth fighting for‚ but sometimes sacrifices are needed. One reason I
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The spirit of humans has always been to try to go higher‚ deeper and faster. This is why Felix Baumgartner decided to do something that no one else has done before. Some people say that it is the most important event that happened in 2012. Which leads me to ask: Is Project Stratos the most important event of 2012? In my view‚ yes. To prove my thesis‚ Mr. Lemieux‚ I will address the two following arguments: Felix broke several world records and he helped scientists to improve their knowledge about
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of the sky have always fascinated me. The stories about great astronomers like Neil Armstrong‚ Yuri Gagarin‚ Kalpana Chawla etc.‚ have enhanced my zeal towards space. Ever since then‚ reaching skies has always been my dream. Even at school‚ when I was asked about what I would become in life‚ I always said I would be a Scientist in the Space department‚ which is my eventual dream. Perhaps‚ a renowned scientist and former President of India‚ Mr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said “you have to dream before your
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this summer was The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. This book was first published in 1946. However‚ it is set in the distant future‚ as many of his novels are. Bradbury begins his novel in January of 2030 in Ohio where a rocket is launched into space heading for Mars. In the following month on Mars‚ a Martian named Ylla begins having strange dreams about a rocket from Earth landing on her planet and a strange creature named Nathaniel York emerging from it. Ylla’s dreams come true‚ and the men from
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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 interstellar spacecraft (United Planets space cruiser C57D) in the 23rd century is sent from Earth to investigate what befell an earlier expedition some 20 years before to a planet called Altair IV. Once reaching orbit‚ Commander J. J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew receive a radio transmission
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subscribed to Young People’s Records. Every month I received in the mail a 10-inch 78 RPM record‚ or sometimes a package of two records. One day I received a record called "By rocket to the moon". It contained a fictional story about a trip by space ship around the moon and back to Earth‚ some 19 years before that actually happened‚ as well as some facts about the planets‚ which in those days included Pluto. That sparked my interest in astronomy. I devoured every children’s book about astronomy
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Space. The final frontier. It is the only place humanity has not completely mastered and discovered‚ but even now‚ organizations are getting ready to send people to mars in order to colonize in just the next decade. Not so long ago‚ the priority of the American government was to colonize and conquer the uncivilized west. During this period of westward expansion‚ new art forms and literature emerged. One of the most prominent is American Progress by John Gast. American Progress is a detailed painting
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In the movie Apollo 13 three astronauts go up to space in the space craft odyssey and encounter many problems. The astronauts‚ Jim Lovell‚ Jack Swigert and Fred Haise were on a rushed mission to go to the moon when Jack went to go stir the oxygen tanks and one of them exploded. The explosion led to a whole host of problems. The astronauts had to abort the mission and focus on a safe return home. A monomyth plotline is when a person leaves a place‚ encounters obstacles and comes back a different
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competition called the Space Race. This was a race to who would be the first country to send a rocket and a human being up into space. Although the Soviet Union was the first to send both a rocket and a human up into space‚ the United States successfully carried out a space mission called Project Mercury. Project Mercury was carried out in 1959 and came to a conclusion in 1963. It was the first human spaceflight program that was undertaken by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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