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Cold War Space Race
1,371 words... d to the USSR. Now, the cold war had established a permanent space race. The U. S. Army's attempt to launch America's first satellite into orbit failed in a launch pad explosion. Two months after the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, this failure further emphasized America's lag behind the Soviet Union in the space race. Having already lost the race to launch the world's first artificial satellite to the Soviet Union, the United States accelerated its plan to develop an unmanned M...
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Carbon Dioxide Solar System
1,582 wordsHumans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earths neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earths neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago, perhaps when a nearby star exploded and ca...
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Force Of Gravity Plantation Owner
1,300 words"Late every autumn around November 17 th or 18 th, in the still, silent hours before dawn, dedicated meteor watchers have long kept a vigil. In the cold early morning darkness the sky glimmers with a preview of early spring constellations. Leading them up in the east is Leo. Its familiar Sickle asterism, a backward question mark, seems especially full of meaning these nights, for on the cutting edge of the Sickle's curved hook is the radiant of the greatest of all meteor showers" (Roe). The Leon...
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History Around The Russian Launch Of Sputnik
2,086 wordsThe launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4 th, 1957 had a profound influence on both American and Russian culture, ranging from the inception of the space race to the mass hysteria the ensued in America afterwards. Sputnik was the product of massive amounts of money and research poured into a missile and satellite program by both the American and Soviet governments. Even though The soviet union might have been the first country to put a satellite into space, this does not necessari...
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Important To Note Amount Of Energy
1,728 wordsThere are nine planets in our solar system and we have visited all of these but one. Even though Pluto is the smallest and furthest planet from the sun, it is no way inferior to the other planets. It in fact is possibly one of the most unique bodies in the solar system. There is much that we do not know about this tiny world and its equally unique moon, Charon. For this reason we are proposing to send a flyby mission to the Pluto-Charon system as soon as possible. Pluto was discovered on Februar...
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Sun And Moon Celestial Bodies
1,421 words... e read together, this miracle becomes apparent: It is He Who is the Lord of Sirius. (Qur " an, 53: 49) He was two bow-lengths away or even closer. (Qur " an, 53: 9) The description in Surat an-Name 9 may also describe how these two stars approach one another in their orbits. (Allah knows best. ) This scientific fact, that nobody could have known at the time of the revelation of the Qur " an, once again proves that the Qur " an is the word of Almighty Allah. THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN...
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The Scientific Revolution Medieval World View
1,047 words... eric form impose the same perfection on the larger universe? Working from this presupposition, Kepler proceeded to elaborate a theory of planetary orbits. Though there was a discrepancy in the system at the orbit of Jupiter, Kepler refused to fault the system itself and credited the error to a flaw in the tables of Copernicus. He immediately proceeded to publish is findings. As Ptolemy had entitled his work the Almagest, or the Greatest, Kepler entitled his own explanation of the way things ...
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Celestial Bodies General Assembly
1,370 wordsWhy Pluto Is Not a Planet? According to the 26 th General Assembly for the International Astronomical Union, Pluto is no longer a planet. More than 2, 500 astronomers, who took part in 7 Symposia, 17 Joint Discussions, and 7 Special Sessions adopted new definition of a planet. From now on, Resolution 5 A defines the planet as a celestial body that: Is in orbit around the Sun; Has enough mass for its self-gravity to overcome the rigid body forces to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round)...
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Solar System Million Miles
1,320 wordsEarths Beyond Earth: The Search for Other Worlds In early 1990, the first extrasolar planet was detected, surprising everyone by its strangeness. More planets have now been discovered outside our solar system than in it. These planets present many great mysteries to the astronomical world. Extrasolar planets are planets that exist outside our solar system; they are orbiting a star other than our Sun. So far, eighteen have been found, all of them defying well-established theories about planets an...
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Geosynchronous Orbits Geosynchronous Geosynchronous Orbits Stage
344 wordsGeosynchronous Orbits Geosynchronous OrbitsGeorbit Physics Geosynchronous Orbits Geosynchronous Orbits + Geostationary Orbits Websters dictionary defines a Geostationary orbit as of, relating to, or being a satellite that travels above Earths equator from west to east at an altitude of approximately 35, 900 kilometers (22, 300 miles) and at a speed matching that of Earths rotation, thus remaining stationary in relation to Earth. 2. Of, relating to, or being the orbit of such a satellite. In plai...
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Geostationary Orbit Earths Rotation Satellites
337 wordsGeosynchronous Orbits + Geostationary Orbits Websters Dictionary defines a Geostationary orbit as of, relating to, or being a satellite that travels above Earths equator from west to east at an altitude of approximately 35, 900 kilometers (22, 300 miles) and at a speed matching that of Earths rotation, thus remaining stationary in relation to Earth. 2. Of, relating to, or being the orbit of such a satellite. In plain English, a satellite matches the earths rotation making it seemingly hover over...
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Global Positioning System U S Military
3,776 wordsAs we enter the 21 st century, we are constantly being bombarded with new technologies. From the wireless community to operations that once took weeks to recover and now only take a day or so, our world will never be the same. Another technology that is revolutionizing the world we live in is the Global Positioning System or GPS. The first GPS satellite was called GPS Block I. Launched in 1978, it was a developmental satellite. Another nine Block I satellites were launched through 1988. GPS is t...
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U S Military Global Positioning System
1,395 wordsIn the 1800 s, most things were done using manpower, not machines. To plow a field it used to require a team of horses and a plow. To make butter it required a hand churn. Life was simple and people depended on themselves. In the 1920 s the automobile was a very important technological machine. Instead of a team of horses and a carriage, one could move about more efficiently in an automobile. Through the following years many advances in technology occurred: electric machines, televisions, radios...
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Gps Satellites Gps Receivers
3,463 wordsThe new Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) systems installed in the F- 111 E and EF- 111 A have raised their share of questions, so I have decided to continue my series of Everything You Always Wanted To Know handouts to you pilots, navigators, and maintenance technicians on how the cotton-picked thing works. This informational pamphlet is an overview of the GPS system as a whole, NOT the system- specific hardware that you find in your respective aircraft. Ill cover the basic theory of operati...
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Earths Rotation Solar Wind
1,404 wordsTHE MOON Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. As the Moon orbits around the Earth once per month, the angle between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun changes; we see this as the cycle of the Moons phases. The time between successive new moons is 29. 5 days (709 hours), slightly different from the Moons orbital pe...
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Hundred Years Ago Isaac Newton
542 wordsISAAC NEWTON The world would be very different from how it is now if it weren t for Isaac Newton. His discoveries are the foundation of science as we know it today. Many people consider him to be the father of modern science. Many of his equations and formulas are still used by scientists and mathematicians all over the world. One of the many fields of study Isaac Newton helped to advance was astronomy. Before Newton s time, the movements of the planets were thought to have been controlled by ma...
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U S Government People Republic Of China
1,237 wordsThe Discoverer Program was a fake to conceal the Corona Program, as a series of photo-reconnaissance spy satellites. Corona was the first photo-reconnaissance program, and the beginnings for military and space imaging programs of today. Corona was developed in secrecy so that the targeted nations wouldn t know what was planned. The U. S. government announced a series of scientific goals, including biological and reentry experiments for space flight, but none were actually planned. The cover was ...
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Carbon Monoxide Solar System
856 wordsMatthew Berkowitz Science PLUTO 11 - 9 - 99 Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun (usually) and by far the smallest. Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar systems moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton). Orbit: 5, 913, 520, 000 km (39. 5 AU) from the Sun (average) Diameter: 2274 km Mass: 1. 27 e 22 kg In Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld. The planet received this name (after many other suggestions) perhaps because its so far from...
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Kilometers In Diameter Mitral Valve
1,169 wordsReading Response Researchers have now concluded that a heart defect, called mitral valve prolapse is not as dangerous as it was previously pronounced. The defect is far less common and dangerous, only effecting about 5 percent of Americans. The syndrome, which is caused by the mitral valve flaps becoming elongated and floppy, letting blood flow backwards into the heart chamber. The defect may require surgery to prevent sudden death, stroke, heart failure, and abnormal heart rhythms that cause fa...
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Rotation Period Wide Open
2,643 wordsSaturn is the outermost planet of the planets known in ancient times. The earliest known observations of Saturn, by the Babylonians, can be reliably dated to the mid- 7 th century BC, but it was probably noticed much earlier, since Saturn tends to shine brighter than most stars. To the naked eye it appears yellowish. The Greeks named it after Cronus, the original ruler of Olympus, who in Roman is the god Saturn. Saturn is the 6 th planet in order distance from the sun. It cannot approach the pla...
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