life on other planets around the universe more possible. First‚ many earthlike planets have been found throughout the universe. One particular “Super Earth‚” a large earthlike planet‚ is 50 percent bigger than our Earth and seems to have water pooled and stable on the surface (Spotts). In addition‚ the star of solar systems like our sun must be able to provide the right amount of sunlight to an inhabitable planet. The white dwarf supporting the “Super Earth” is close enough to the planet that the planet’s
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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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Olivia Castillo Eng. 110 Mr. Lewenstein 10/23/14 Save the Planet Essay In today’s society‚ people are exposing our planet to more harmful chemicals every day. The chemicals are able to help in succeeding with some experiments and new inventions‚ but too much of it is causing great damage to our environment. For example‚ contamination of chemicals can occur in the water we drink. In-taking the water is dangerous for everyone and can most likely affect our health. Also‚ too many chemicals can add
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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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Shoemaker is a comet that hit the planet Jupiter in July of 1994. It was discovered by three expert comet detectors‚ Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker‚ and David Levy‚ in 1992. The comet originated its name by its discoverers the “Shoemaker- Levy 9: Comet”. As information came it they started to realize that the comet had been orbiting Jupiter and not the Sun itself. They discovered that the comet might have even been orbiting the planet as late as the year 1966. The impacts ended up being a multi-day
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know that our solar system has a total of eight planets‚ after they decided Pluto wasn’t a planet it was then know to be a dwarf planet. What if there are other planets in our solar system? With advanced technology they did it‚ they found another planet that’s in our solar system‚ but it’s not proven yet. The high tech computers detect a planet but it has still not been seen by the human eye. So what this means is the the planet isn’t officially a planet until it has been seen by a human for it to be
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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 moon is circling both the puple plane and the yellow sun. It is circling the purple planet‚ while the purple planet is circling around the sun. Therefore
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found more and more ‘super-Earths’‚ which is a term used for an extrasolar planet that has a mass higher than planet Earth’s but below the mass of the solar systems’ gas giants. In some cases‚ these super-Earths contain water as well as potential living support. In 2011‚ fifty new planets were found. Sixteen of them are super-Earths. As the article states‚ these planets were found by a High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher – HARPS for short. This instrument has found two-thirds of known
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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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All the amendments give american people rights to be free and be ourselves ‚ Not just one amendment ‚ all of them help fight for everyone’s rights. The amendments give the people rights to be free to be whoever anyone wants to be ‚ however Many people abuse their rights and judge other people for being themselves.The Amendments give americans the right to be ourselves and to be free ‚ and with all this society can achieve equality. It is possible to achieve equality because you have freedom
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