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Speed Of Light Square Kilometer
1,069 wordsDo you think its possible to find aliens in your lifetime? The chances that an extraterrestrial civilization would actually come to the Earth are slim. However, if they did the best way to find extraterrestrial life is not by space exploration, but by electronic signals. Signals can carry words, numbers, and pictures cheaply and at the speed of light. The amount of time and energy required for the travel would be enormous. The amount of energy required to accelerate a spacecraft weighing several...
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Focal Length Distant Objects
1,280 wordsLight and other kinds of electromagnetic radiation coming from the universe outside the Earth must travel enormous distances through space and time to reach observers. Only the brightest and nearest stars can be seen with the unaided eye. To see farther and to clarify and measure what is seen, a telescope is needed. The word telescope is derived from the Greek words tele, "from afar, " and shops, "viewer. " Even a simple homemade telescope can clearly show Saturn's rings, Jupiter's bands and red...
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Global Warming The Major Problem
1,811 wordsImagine you are placed into the future. The year is 2100. You begin to live in this new world. You hear about huge storms over much of the USA that cause severe damage and flooding. San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, Seattle, and Miami all experience major flooding from the ocean level having risen so high. Thousands and thousands of people perish each summer across the USA alone hundreds die in Chicago as the temperature soars to 100 for 2 weeks straight. No, this isnt total fantasy. Th...
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Radio Telescopes Radio Signals
1,153 wordsSETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is the scientific search for signals, primarily radio signals, from outer space. It is based on the belief that we will hear extraterrestrials before we see. The organizations work has been going on ever since the 1960 s. The main tools the scientists / searchers use are radio telescopes and listening equipment. To understand this organization, one must first look at its rocky history, and its unique discoveries. The Beginning of SETI is re...
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Big Bang Theory One Of The Most Important
1,509 wordsThe wide extent of the distribution of galaxies is evaluated by astrophysicists as one of the most important legacies from the first phases of the universe to have come down to the present day. It is therefore possible to refer to the information on the distribution and location of the galaxies as "a window opening onto the history of the universe. " In their research that lasted several years, two independent teams, composed of British, Australian and American scientists, produced a three-dimen...
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Wife Died Sir John
802 wordsWilliam Rutter Dawes (1799 - 1868) Dawes was born in London. His father was a mathematics teacher who had high hopes that his son would become a clergyman in the Church of England. The young Dawes chose instead to train as a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He moved to Liverpool in 1826 where he was to meet William Lassell (there appears to be no actual record of their first meeting) and strike up a lifelong friendship. It was around the time Dawes arrived in Liverpool that he ...
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William Dawes Midnight Ride
691 wordsWilliam Dawes... MidNight Ride Lt. William Dawes was born in 1762. Little is known of his childhood. His father, Benjamin Dawes, was clerk of works in the Ordnance Office at Portsmouth, Devon. William was the oldest of five children. The first we hear of William is that he joined the Royal Marines at the age of 17. He was twice married, and had three children, all from the first marriage. Lt. Dawes was a second lieutenant when wounded in action against the French at Chesapeake Bay in 1781. He vo...
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University Of Chicago Mount Wilson
706 wordsEdwin Hubble, was an American astronomer who has had an enormous impact on science, often compared to Isaac Newton and Galileo. Hubble has helped change our thoughts and perception of the universe in two important ways. First, Hubble confirmed the existence of other galaxies other than the Milky Way, during a time when many people thought the Milky Way was the entire universe. Secondly, with the help of other astronomers, he confirmed that the universe was expanding at a constant rate by develop...
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Solar System July 23
810 wordsAs I am sure all of you know, we have recently been able to see a new but not permanent addition to the night sky. This addition is known as Hale-Bopp, a comet that is about 122 million miles (about 1. 3 times the distance of the sun to the earth) from the earth and is approximately 25 miles wide. Hale-Bopp was discovered on July 23, 1995 by two scientists named Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona. This is the first discovery for both of them, although Alan Hale is one of the top ...
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Comet Of 1577 Designed And Built Tycho
767 wordsTygeTycho Brahe Tycho Brahe The (Latinized as Tycho) Brahe was born on 14 December 1546 in State, then in Denmark, now in Sweden. He was the eldest son of Otto Brahe and Better Bill, both from families in the high nobility of Denmark. He was brought up by his paternal uncle J? rgen Brahe and became his heir. He attended the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig, and then traveled through the German region, studying further at the universities of Wittenberg, Rostock, and Basel. During this perio...
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Henry Draper Solar Spectrum Stars
422 wordsMEGAN JACKSON MS. KEYS SCIENCE DECEMBER 5, 2000 THE STARS AND GALAXIES Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered what are those bright and shiny things up there. Stars: a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night. A self-luminous gaseous celestial body offbeat mass which produces energy by means of nuclear fusion reactions, whose shape is usually spheroidal, and whose size may be as small as the earth or larger than the earth? s orbit. Galaxies: Any of the very large gro...
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Hall Of Fame Arts And Sciences
951 wordsMARIA MITCHELL The person that I chose for the Women&# 61501; s History Month report is Maria Mitchell, who was a self- taught astronomer. She discovered Comet Mitchell and made amazing achievements throughout her life. Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818 on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket to William and Lydia Mitchell. When Maria Mitchell was growing up in the Quaker community, few girls were allowed to study astronomy and higher mathematics. Even though the Mitchells werent rich Ma...
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End Of The World Southern California
968 wordsThe Y 2 K scare has gotten the entire world s attention with the radical headline that the world may come to an end. Although disputable, January 1 st 2000 or January 1 st 2001 is the deadline which electric appliances, computer databases, and many other necessities in our culture will cease to work. There is another date very little attention has been given, however. May 5 th 2000 has been speculated for many centuries as an important date for mankind. It is the day five of the nine planets and...
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Tycho Brahe Frederick Ii
556 wordssubject = Physics title = Tycho Brahe's Contributions to Physics papers = TYCHO BRAHE Tycho Brahe was born on December 14 th, 1546 in a town called Knudstrup in Scania, Denmark. His early years were filled with pain, as he was kidnapped by his uncle and raised in his castle in Tostrup, Scania. His education was backed by his uncle, and he went to the University of Copenhagen to study law from 1559 - 1562. It was during this time that Brahe developed a love for astronomy. He saw a solar eclipse o...
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Aubrey Holes Heel Stone
907 wordsJoseph Woods 8 th Stone Hedge Stonehenge Joseph Woods 8 th grade research Miss. Markle 1 - 22 - 9 Stone Hedge is a very complicated structure witch is located in England. Stone Hedge has many myths, legends, and questions surrounding its uses and origin. In this report it goes over the probabilities for the uses of Stone Hedge. Also it gives reasons why or why not it could have been used for that reason. Plus it gives a brief history about when and who built it. Stone Hedge is an elaborate circu...
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