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Beneath The Surface Mauna Loa
1,512 wordsWhich are the biggest (tallest and largest volume) and smallest volcanoes on Earth? The island of Hawaii is probably the largest volcano on earth. From its base (on the floor of the Pacific Ocean) to the summit of Mauna Kea (about 13 000 ft) is some 30 000 ft i. e. higher than Everest. The island comprises several coalescing volcanoes including Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Kilauea. Mauna Loa alone has an estimated volume of 40 000 km 3. It is impossible to say which is the smallest volcano since the...
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Solar System Asteroids Space
342 wordsAsteroids are some of the many small or minor planets in the solar system that move in oval shaped orbits mostly between Mars and Jupiter. The largest of all asteroids is Ceres, with a diameter of 1030 km. Pallas and Vesta are next with diameters of 550 km each. In all, there are about 200 asteroids with diameters of more than 97 km with thousands of other smaller ones. Though plentiful, the Moon's mass still belittles the total mass of all asteroids in the solar system. The larger bodies tend t...
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Solar System Comets Comet
393 wordsThe article summarized below is from THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (issue Dec. 97) by William R. Newport. It tells about how comets are important and their effect on earth and its people. Comets are leftover scrubs of material that did not make it to planet hood 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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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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Space And Time Intelligent Life
1,052 wordsThe scientific community is largely in agreement on the fact that life began here on Earth about three and a half billion years ago. In a universe ruled over largely by entropy, it is inane to say that any set of circumstances could be completely unique. The primordial constituents of Earths atmosphere gave way to the building blocks of life, as could and in all likelihood has happened elsewhere in the vastness of space and time. Since the dawn of mankind, we have looked to the stars in search o...
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The Scientific Revolution Medieval World View
1,034 words... iting. The combined influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation had generated an attitude of scepticism towards all authority. Soon this skepticism led to a questioning of established beliefs in the sciences, just as it had in religion and politics. COPERNICUS (1473 -- 1543) As mentioned above, sometime around 150 AD, Ptolemy wrote what was to become the defining text for the science of astronomy, an immense book known as the Almagest or "The Greatest. " It's position as the defining te...
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Degrees Celsius Solar System
456 wordsMercury is the closest planet to the sun. It's average distance from the sun is approximately fifty-eight million km and it's diameter is 4875 km, making it the second smallest planet in our solar system. It's volume and mass are about 1 / 18 that of the earth and it's average density is approximately equal to that of the earth. Mercury's magnetic field is one-hundred times weaker than that of Earth's. Mercury has the shortest revolution of all the planets in our solar system and revolves around...
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Polar Ice Caps Carbon Dioxide
2,528 wordsColony on Mars The human race has always explored the unknown. At the dawn of the humanity new lands were the object of exploration. People stimulated by their curiosity and care for the future generations left their overcrowded or exhausted lands and went to unknown virgin territories in search of fertile soil, economic and political independence and secure life for their children. The technological progress of the twentieth century has changed life of the mankind to such an extent, that in ear...
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16 Th Century Sun And Moon
1,518 wordsCopernicus and Ptolemy Nowadays astrology is based on a work of two prolific medieval scientists Ptolemy and Copernicus. These scientists have developed what we call today a space science or astronomy in general. Though the theories were genius from the viewpoint of that time, one could not expect them to be completely accurate and satisfy all the inquiries of modern science. It is well-known today that the sun is the center of the solar system and many people consider this knowledge obvious. Ho...
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Dust Particles Solar System
1,011 wordsNeptune is the Neptune Neptune Neptune is the outermost planet of the gas giants. It has an equatorial diameter of 49, 500 kilometers (30, 760 miles) and is the eighth planet from the sun. If Neptune were hollow, it could contain nearly 60 Earths. Neptune orbits the Sun every 165 years. It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager 2. A day on Neptune is 16 hours and 6. 7 minutes. Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle, of the Berlin Observatory. Neptune ...
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Milton Paradise Lost York W W Norton
2,145 wordsJohn Milton's Paradise Lost is a religious work, and is in many ways an autobiography of Milton's own life. John Milton was raised catholic and converted to Protestantism. Later in life he became a Calvinist. His strong Calvinists beliefs can be seen throughout Paradise Lost. It was Milton's desire to be a great poet, but he did not believe that was his purpose in life. He believed that he had been put here to serve God, and that any thing that he wrote should be in one way or another related to...
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Degrees Celsius Magnetic Field
538 wordsMercury is Mercury 2 Mercury Mercury is the eighth largest planet in our solar system, equaling roughly one-third of Earth s size. It is also the planet closest to the sun, and is often visible with binoculars, or even the naked eye. It s difficult to see in the twilight sky. One of Mercury s most distinguishable features is its rugged surface, which is similar to the surface of the Earth s moon. In Roman mythology, Mercury is the god of commerce and thievery. He is considered the Roman counterp...
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Solar System Mariner 10 Mercury
335 wordsIn Roman Mercury MERCURY In Roman mythology Mercury is messenger of the gods, and son of the god Jupiter. Mercury is the planet closest to the sun. Its distance from the sun is approximately 58 million km (about 36 million miles); its diameter is 4875 km (3030 miles); its volume and mass are about: that of the earth; and its density is approximately equal to that of the earth. Mercury revolves about the sun in a period of 88 days. Radar observations of the planet show that its period of rotation...
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Lava Flows Earths Atmosphere
2,015 wordsThe Mercury Report Mercury Report The magnificent planet Mercury is the planet I have chosen to research. I this report I have explained all there is to know about Mercury and its aura. The Romans gave Mercury its name after the fleet-footed messenger of the gods because it seemed to move quicker than any other planet. It is the closest planet to the Sun, and second smallest planet in the solar system. Its diameter is 40 % smaller than Earth and 40 % larger than the Moon. It is even smaller than...
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Miles Per Hour Gravitational Pull
724 wordsKristy Pryzmont May 5 th, 2001 Astronomy HWK # 4 ASTR 220 1. There is evidence that supports the hypothesis that the Milky Way Galaxy has a massive black hole at its core. At the center of our very own galaxy is a mysterious source of energy. Vast amounts of radiation pour from this compact source which may be a Supermassive Black Hole. Astronomers found an intense radio source with strings of other radio sources clustered about it in the direction of the galactic center. The intense source was ...
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Hubble Space Telescope Star Formation
978 wordsThe Orion Nebula contains one of the brightest star clusters in the night sky. With a magnitude of 4, this nebula is easily visible from the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months. It is surprising, therefore, that this region was not documented until 1610 by a French lawyer named Nicholas-Claude Far de Peiresc. On March 4, 1769, Charles Messier inducted the Orion Nebula, M 42, into his list of stellar objects. Then, in 1771, Messier released his list of objects for its first publication i...
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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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Number Of Times Euclidean Geometry
2,376 wordsChaos Theory and Fractal Phenomena Chaos theory is the qualitative study of unstable aperiodic behavior in deterministic nonlinear systems. To understand the definition of chaos can be understood if broken down: A dynamical system may be defined to be a simplified model of the time-varying behavior of an actual system and an aperiodic behavior is the behavior that occurs when no variable describing the state of the system undergoes a regular repetition of values. An aperiodic behavior will never...
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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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Life Forms Solar System
2,328 wordsStar date: 41176. 8 Captains log. This is my (Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U. S. S. Enterprise #NCC- 17 O 1 D) account of the events leading up to and beyond the Federation and Romulan war (2380 - 2385 AD). Star date: 32851. 2: The Enterprise received a distressed call from a fleeing scout ship. SOS I am under attack! ! request asylum Federation Space! ! ... The ship was pushing the limits of its engines as it hurtled out of the neutral zone the volume of space that serves as a no-ones-land se...
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