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    you know that the majority of people wonder about the Solar System? It is the final frontier, or the one thing that is not fully discovered. There are many unique masses in the Solar System. They range from planets like the earth to rocks such as asteroids, comets, and meteors. But one thing is for certain… every mass has to orbit the sun. The Size of the Sun A key point is that the most important mass of the entire Solar System is the…

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    his television standoff with Allison and reveals he knows she had something to do with Jessica’s death, but immediately afterward, the story jumps eleven years later and becomes bogged down by intricate explanations of how Monica can adjust the asteroids trajectory. These jumps not only make it difficult with the reader to fully engage with the events taking place, it also robs the narrative tension built from the first one hundred pages of the story. Furthermore, the prologue leads the reader…

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    ourselves from the threat of getting hit by an asteroid. If we don’t want what happened to the dinosaurs to happen to us. We need to explore ways to protect ourselves and our planet from asteroids. One way we could do that would be to go in deeper with space exploration. NASA scientist are now stating “there is a reason to worry about asteroids.” However very small asteroids do come very close to earth very often. That puts the scientists in need to watch Asteroids very closely. So they would…

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    caused by a meteorite, or an asteroid. However, I think that a bomb caused the explosion because if it was an asteroid, there would…

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    home to claim what was, by right and law, his. However, when Jason reached his boyhood home, he was turned away by his half-uncle. Frank Pelias told him, “Go to the stars, and bring me a sheet of pure platinum. They can be found just through the asteroid belt. However, you must get one from the Colchites, on their planet, Aeetes. Then, and only then, will you get this land.”…

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    In the article Mission to the Lost Planet by Tim Folger, Folger tells us about how the belt between mars and Neptune has two gigantic asteroids named Ceres and Vesta, two asteroids that almost were formed into planets. Ceres is now considered a dwarf planet and Vesta has similar geological features that resemble Earth’s surface. Folger Begins to tell us about Marc Rayman who is a chief engineer for a NASA mission that launched a spacecraft known as Dawn into space to head towards both Ceres and…

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    After landing we do a simple length contraction, that gives us the distance to impact from our reference point after the landing. Then we use to rover signal to give us the speed of the asteroid, then calculating it time. After that we do a time dilation to determine the time we have left in our reference frame. After that we can determine its location and how long we will have to create a missile to destroy it, however I suggest creating…

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    like our sun had developed more than 4.5 billion years ago. It was a target even before Galileo had launched. Four spacecrafts had reached Jupiter before Galileo did; Voyager 1 and 2 as well as Pioneer 10 and 11 were those four spacecrafts but were unable to stay and it limited the information that the scientists had needed. It was from those spacecrafts that NASA decided to construct Galileo to discover more information on Jupiter and its moons. The journey to Jupiter itself was a hard one,…

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    Freddie Mercury Freddie is the most influential singer because he is remembered by an asteroid,he made it to top 10 songs in Britain,and he also wrote one of there top hit songs Bohemian Rhapsody. Personal Life Freddie studied piano in a boarding school, in India,that’s where he gets his talents from (Source #1). Freddie once had a stamp collection (Source #3). His stamp collection stays a treasure of his life's history (Source #3). In additionally he collected art.One time he spent more…

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    “Slash and Burn”, a popular and illegal method of deforestation used by farmers to cut out forest, burn the trees, and farm in the nutrients of the resulting ash. The problem with slash and burn is that the crops drain the soil of its nutrients within 3-4 years, and it takes nearly a century for the forest to grow back. Humans have practiced this kind of environmental burnout for most of history, and as our population grows the world only seems to get smaller. This method is practiced because it…

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