Asteroid

were more common than the metals and materials that formed the inner planets, letting them grow big enough to take large atmospheres of hydrogen and helium to form something. Leftover space trash that never becomes planets in regions such as the Asteroid Belt, and Kuiper…

American Museum of Natural History in New York City, he owns his own podcast (“Startalk”), he was voted Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive by People Magazine in 2000, he was recognized by the International Astronomical Union and was dubbed the name of asteroid 13123 “Tyson”. and he is the recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by…

Throughout the novel, Miranda changes, she started off in the book by being hopeful, saying nothing awful is going to happen to her.Miranda had a very Optimistic attitude in the beginning of the novel, confident that everything is going to return to normal and, having no doubt that this is just a short term event and that she and her family will be safe and sound, then she slowly became a quitter by telling her family that they are not going to survive by the cause of the natural disaster that…

knowledge of formation of the Universe that lead to the assimilation of galaxies and all contained within them. This is essay will look at the beginning of the universe and the chemical reactions which led to the formation of stars, planets, moons, asteroid belts, comets and meteorites. Then, focusing on Mars, discuss the planets geological features and the instruments used to study them, from its inner core to upper atmosphere. This information will be used in a comparative analysis with Earth…

What does that term mean to you? What images does it bring to mind? Do you think about aliens and UFOs? Huge earth shattering asteroids? How about Neil Armstrong planting a flag on the moon? For many, it brings all those images to mind, yet amidst all the good there is some bad. The space shuttle challenger disaster, asteroids falling to earth in Russia damaging buildings, harming people. What about Area 51 and all the hype about keeping aliens there. As humans, we are inclined…

In 1958 a program was created in America to work on winning the “space race”. America was the first country to reach the moon and now it might also be the first country to reach another planet. The U.S. is working on multiple projects as of now to be able to go to Mars, but the entire program is just focusing on going to Mars now. There are no funds to go into space anymore, and if Americans want to go into space they have to send astronauts to Russia. Sending our astronauts to Russia for them…

physics, Legion of Merit, Bruce Medal and Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical society. Hubble is one of the most famous astronomers to date. In memoriam of his work NASA named the Hubble Space Telescope after Edwin Hubble. Hubble also has an asteroid and a crater on the moon named after him. Since it was launched in 1990,101years after Hubble’s death, the Hubble Space Telescope is still taking amazing photos of galaxies, planets, nebulae, and supernovae. It has provided a wealth of…

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun in our Solar System. Mars got its name from the Roman God of War. Mars means Ares in Roman. Ares is the Roman god of war. Mars is actually much smaller than Earth. It is the 7th biggest planet in our Solar System. The mass of Mars is 6.4169 *1023. That is slightly more than 10% of the Earths mass. It’s radius is 2,106 miles (3,390 Km). The force of gravity at the surface of Mars is 3,711 meters per second. Mars is a terrestrial planet which means that the…

Chapter Seven: The authors job as a Wildlife Conservation Department director changed his focus from extinct species to protecting the living ones. It reminded him of the species richness of the earth. Ecologists have three levels of this diversity. These measurements are the alpha, the beta and the gamma. The alpha diversity tells how many species are in an ecological community. The beta diversity compares that to the nearby communities that have different physical characteristics.…

Uranus, the ice giant, is the seventh planet from the sun at a distance of about 2.9 billion km away. It has hydrogen and helium upper layer like the other gas giants, Uranus also has an icy mantle which surrounds its rock and iron core. The upper crystals give Uranus its distinctive pale blue color. . Uranus has the largest tilt of any planet in our solar system and spins on its side. It 20 year long seasons because of its unusual orientation, the planet experiences extreme variations in…