Casandra Lopez Korenic-Astronomy Sun I will be writing about the Sun, and how it plays a part in our Solar System. Starting with what our Sun is composed of, being that it is not a planet. It is a star, since it has no solid surface. It’s made of gases, 7.8 percent of Helium and 92.1 percent of Hydrogen. Being that it is not a solid body, the equator of the Sun spins at a different rate than the poles of the Sun. The poles take about 11 more days to spin than the equator. Even though it is not
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Imagine that you are six years old and someone came to your house and told you that you they were going to take you into space to train you to become a great commander. It sounded cool at the time, so you go with them. However, you soon find out that you are destined to save the human race from a race of aliens that threaten Earth. That is a lot of responsibility for one small child the age of six, welcome to Ender Wiggin’s world. He was tested and was found to be the world’s best chance at avoiding
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On October 10 , 2015 the Space exploratory in Maui Hawaii found that on October 30, a “Halloween” asteroid would fly by. It is said that it is not a threat but it is the closest and asteroid has come to earth since 1999.It will still be 300,000 miles away from earth however and it will be following and orbit similar to the moons. The asteroid’s official name is TB145 but many just call it “The Great Pumpkin”. NASA is also now tracking the asteroid and studying it and are planning to use many instruments
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I am very and extremely confused on many points this article has stated. Firstly it has stated that since Venus would be lined right in front of Jupiter (off by one degree) it would light up 10 times it’s normal lighting. How is this even possible? like there should be an explanation for this seriously! Just because Venus lined up in front of Jupiter it would light up? This makes absolutely no sense what’s so ever. Then it has stated that since Venus would light up Jupiter would release a massive
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A group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica by the nearly-ended winter, discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice, where it crashed twenty million years before. They try to thaw the inside of the spacecraft with a thermite charge, but end up accidentally destroying it when the ship's magnesium hull is ignited by the charge. However, they do recover the alien pilot from the ancient ice, which the researchers believe was searching for heat when it was frozen. Thawing revives the alien
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The novel “The Andromeda Strain” revolves around a bio-weapon that makes its way to Earth via a crashed military satellite. In the book, a satellite originally intended to gather upper-atmosphere microorganisms for exploitation as a bio-weapon comes crashing down near the town of Piedmont, Arizona, killing all but 2 inhabitants of Piedmont almost instantaneously. The United States Military authorizes protocol Wildfire, which is intended to investigate biological threats with an extraterrestrial origin
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Revenge of Pluto I usually don’t have the habit of waking up early in the morning. But there was somebody on the verge of breaking my door if I did not wake up and open the door myself. The sun was just rising and I could not help but think, when was the last time I woke up so early. The person who was knocking my door wanted to interview me and with good reason. He was from one of those crazy institutions which believed that aliens exist. I actually never saw anybody getting so excited to see
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| | | Unit Test Answer Key Number Properties Unit Test, Part 2 Answer each question in the space provided. (8 points) 1. Refer to Expression 1 and Expression 2. [pic]Expression 1 Expression 2 [pic] [pic] a) What
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1. The primary purpose and design of Jupiter is to operate organic clothing and to sell to unrelated retailers. The risks of Jupiter will flow right back to Venus and Saturn. The percent’s being 51% for Saturn and 49% for Venus. All loss and profit are split according to the ownership percentages. 2. Both Venus and Saturn are Variable interest holders. “A controlling financial interest in the VIE model requires both of the following: 1) the power to direct the activities that most significantly
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CASSINI'S NAVIGATES ICE PLUMES ON ENCELADUS Cassini spacecraft was set to fly through plumes of water on Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Scientists recently discovered a salty ocean lying beneath the ice covering Enceladus similarly to one of Jupiter’s moon, Europa which is also believed to have a sub-ice ocean. The dive was designed to collect data about the mysterious subterranean salt water ocean on Enceladus. In this event, the craft will only be 30km on top of the surface
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