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Alternative Energy Sources Form Of Energy
1,449 wordsThe U. S. oil supply is rapidly diminishing. Alternative energy sources must be implemented because oil is a scarce and non-renewable resource. Each year the U. S. consumes 6. 2 billion barrels of oil, equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil each day (Coastal 67). The undiscovered U. S. OCS and gas resources combined with onshore reserves would amount to only 81. 5 billion barrels of oil, enough to last for 5000 days (Coastal 75). So the oil crisis is not entirely bad news, the U. S. still has t...
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Center Of The Universe Force Of Gravity
1,271 wordsThe human conceptualization of the solar system dates back to the beginning of time. The early Egyptians worshipped the sun as a source of life and then the area called space was becoming a curiosity to humans. Throughout history, our knowledge of the solar system has increased and there is still much to learn. Through the research and studies of Brahmagupta, Ptolemy, Kepler, Brahe, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. With this knowledge, laws and equations for physical science have been ...
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Ancient Egyptians Twelve Months
1,779 wordsKara Byers 1 CH tutor: Dr. Gerard Mc Cartan It took several thousand years to establish a satisfactory calendar. Even in this century not all the countries in Europe kept the same calendar. Why was it so difficult? Do we really need an accurate means of recording civil time? Astronomy originated earlier in human history than the other natural sciences. In the earliest civilisations, the divine or occult was used to explain the movement of the stars and the Sun: the Aztecs, for example, believed ...
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Miles Per Second Speed Of Light
1,615 wordsOur universe is a vast abyss, always expanding without bound. Many objects in space are exciting and intriguing. Mysterious surround many findings and cosmologists, astrophysicists, and astronomers work to obtain a better understanding of these strange phenomena. One great mystery is that of the black hole, which since the early 1960? s has been the object of many scientists? work, but has been dated to be the topic of discussion since 1783, when a astronomer named John Michell first recorded hi...
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Back To Earth Solar Wind
1,313 wordsn this ERA of tight space budgets and infrequent deep-space missions, solar system researchers have pushed to squeeze more science from existing interplanetary spacecraft. By drastically altering their orbital paths using gravity-assisted maneuvers combined with relatively brief rocket firings, veteran probes can be sent on productive extended missions. This technique was successfully employed by the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISSE 3) spacecraft to accomplish two important space firsts:...
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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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Fossil Fuels Solar Panels
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Life On Earth Liquid Water
1,175 wordsThe view of Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch mathematician and physicist who discovered Saturn's moon Titan in 1655, was as follows: Now can anyone look upon, and compare these systems (of Jupiter and Saturn) together, without being amazed at the vast magnitude and noble attendants of these two planets, in respect of this little pitiful Earth of ours? Or can they force themselves to think, that the wise Creator has disposed of all his animals and plants here, has furnished and adorned this spot onl...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Surface Temperature
1,087 wordsOur planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet of our solar system. Uranus is the mysterious blue planet that circles the sun, far from the Earth. A man named William Herschel first discovered this mysterious planet in 1781, he was a German musician living in England who had a great interest in Astronomy. He believed the sky held secrets he wanted to know. He couldnt afford to buy a big telescope, so he made his own. One night in March 1781, Herschel was studying constellations of Gemini. He sp...
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Thousand Six Hundred Planet From The Sun
1,448 wordsOn a hot summer night, as you are sitting outside enjoying the evening, you tilt your head back and look into the night sky. You begin to wonder what is really out there? How far away are the stars? Are they stars or are they planets? We live in a part of the night sky called the Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy can be seen with the naked eye on a clear summer night. It resembles a ribbon stretched across the night sky. During the summer is when the Milky Way is at its fullest with the stars so clus...
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Fossil Fuels Alternative Energy
511 wordsAlternative Energy resources are becoming a much bigger deal as the level of fossil fuels remaining on earth slowly depreciates. Another issue is pollution. Eventually we wont be able to use gas and oil in our cars they will run solely on something like solar energy. Things like Hydroelectric power have been around for many many years, just not with such magnitude or demand. There are four main kinds of alternative energy sources, they are: Solar Energy Solar energy is used to do various 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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Kilometers In Diameter Solar System
1,940 wordsHave you Comet Comets Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen a little ball creeping by? If so, did you wonder what it was? That little ball is called a comet. Comets are small, fragile, and irregularly shaped. Most are composed of frozen gas. However, some are composed of frozen gas and non-volatile grains. They usually follow very strict paths around the sun. Comets become most visible when they cross the sun. This also applies to people who view comets with telescopes. When a comet gets n...
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Earths Surface Earths Crust
4,346 wordsEARTH The Earth, mans home, is a planet. The Earth has special characteristics, and these are important to man. It is the only planet known to have the right temperature and the right atmosphere to support the kind of environments and natural resources in which plants and man and other animals can survive. This fact is so important to man that he has developed a special science called ecology, which deals with the dependence of all living things will continue to survive on the planet. Many milli...
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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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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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Cooperative Learning Solar System
522 wordsSara Bartalo 11 / 20 / 00 Grade 4 Solar System I. Pre- Instruction Phase 1. NYS Standards: ELA Standards 1, 2 &# 038; 4 - Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking for -information and understanding -literary response and expression -social interaction MST Standard 6 - Understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning Social Studies 3 - Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate thei...
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Angular Momentum Los Alamos
1,597 wordsTheories of The Origin of the Moon The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. The distance from Earth is about 384, 400 km with a diameter of 3476 km and a mass of 7. 35 1022 kg. Through history it has had many names: Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks. And of course, has been known through prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. Due to its size and composition, the Moon is sometimes classified as a terrestrial planet along wi...
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Neutron Star Black Hole
559 wordsBlack holes by supernova Firstly, a black hole isnt really a hole at all, but thats the easiest way to think of its effects on the rest of the universe. Take a star thats at least thirty times larger than our sun and make it explode (called a supernova). Stars do that at the end of their lifetime, sometimes leaving a remnant of the violent explosion. The nature of the remnant depends on its mass. If the remnant is less than 1. 4 solar masses, it will become a white dwarf, a kind of hot dead star...
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Space Exploration Upper Atmosphere
1,145 wordsThe Space Race Space Exploration The urge to explore the unknown is part of human nature and has led to many of the most profound changes in our standard of living. It enriches our spirits and reminds us of the great potential of achievement within us all. The drive to develop the next frontier has also been a fundamental part of the heritage of the people of the world. The physical challenges and costs of space exploration also serve as a natural catalyst for peaceful, international cooperation...
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