Asteroid

Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun. As such, it circles around the sun faster than all the other planets that’s why Romans named it after their swift-footed messenger god. The Sumerians also knew about Mercury since at least 5,000 years ago. It was often……………….(akin, related, connect , joint) with Nabu, the god of writing. Mercury was also given separate names for its looks as both are morning star and as an evening star. Greek astronomers knew, however, that the two names…

government to pay more for space exploration, the main objectives of NASA could be changed to focus on defense from extraterrestrial threats, such as asteroids. With its current funding, NASA is struggling to locate large asteroids that could kill billions if they were to land in a populated area (McBrien). If NASA focused its efforts on locating asteroids and finding ways to redirect them, it would not only be a more effective use of their current funding, it may make it easier to request…

Do you know who Neil Armstrong is? Or what he did? And if you do why should we care? Neil Armstrong was the first man too walk on the moon and the pilot too land on the moon. This all happened in 1996 July 20 he was not the first man in space however but that doesn’t matter right now. Why should you care about him? It’s a good chance that you weren't alive or were too young too remember when he landed. He opened up a whole new world too explore and thanks too him we beat russia too the moon.…

severe predators. A food web represents groups of organisms “linked by complex feeding relations in which the flow of energy can be followed from primary producers through consumers.” Catastrophic events on Earth such as collisions of the Earth with asteroids can cause extinctions of many organisms. Catastrophic events happened to be at least six times in the last 450 million…

MHS Winter Play Review Directed by Kathy Graham and produced by the MHS Theatre Department, “The Little Prince” play took place in Moline High School at 7:00 p.m. on January 12th through January 14th. After attending the previous play, I was very excited to view this winter play, though my expectations were set a bit too high. For starters, the plot of the play is very simplistic. While it did implement a great theme, “What is important is invisible to the eye,” I personally did not find the…

forward at a rapid pace. Some people have come to believe that aliens had cross bred with certain monkey breeds creating high intelligence on earth and jump starting the human race. My favorite theory by far is the asteroid theory. The theory talks about how aliens directed an asteroid to hit earth and wipe out the dinosaurs. So they could begin highly intelligent life on earth. I like this theory because it is something modern day explosives could do. The world has set up rockets that if…

In the book Divergent, the world is shown as a dystopia. Do you think our world is a dystopia or do you think it is a Utopia? Or do you think it is in the middle? Censoring information is a sign of a dystopian society in most cases. As is limiting equality among the citizens of a dystopia. Finally not allowing certain information to be exposed to the public is a sign of a dystopian society. Inside of our society we contain certain aspects of a dystopian and utopian society as we have almost no…

truth is that all of the chemicals are barely changing the climate. Naturally, the climate changes over the years because of the earth's orbit and the change of the axis pushes it closer and farther away from the sun. Volcanoes, meteorites, and asteroids. High…

decades of space exploration and astronomy have shown that the universe is violent and dangerous,” which is a true statement. I mean there are black holes, asteroids, solar flairs, and so many more, but what can we do about them? If we are in space we have no protection, for instant, the moon does not have an ozone layer, so comets and asteroids will hit it full force. They will continue making these statements that going to space now is the better solution, but with the cost to do what most of…

combinations so winning on a single ticket comes down to a 1 in 175 million chance. There is a 1 in 135000 chance of being struck by lightning, 1 in 1,600,000 chance that you are hit by a stray asteroid, and a 1 in 60,000 chance you are sucked up by a tornado. So you are over 100 times more likely to be killed by an asteroid, 1296 times more likely to be struck by lightning, and 2916 times more likely of being sucked up by a tornado, then you are of winning the Powerball. What does happen when…