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    Seat Belt Law

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    motor vehicle accidents. Related issues and consequences The seat belt law various from state to state. There are 34 states that have primary seat belt laws, 25 with secondary and one state that do not have any. These laws also differ in who should wear seat belts while in a vehicle. Some require only the driver and front passenger to wear seat belts based on age and weight and other required all passenger to wear the seat belts. Another variation between the states in the violation fee…

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    Government Seat Belt Laws

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    What is the government's role in protecting you from yourself? Restrictions such as mandatory seat belt laws, mandatory helmet laws, and certain drug laws violate personal freedoms and liberties. Our government’s role in creating laws follows the following: “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity” (U.S. Const. Preamble). The governing entities around the…

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    experience across the states and has scarred them for life. Every day more cars are made which makes the risk of a defect in your seat belt higher. Seat belt laws should not be compulsory because it’s an intrusion on our individual rights, people who wear seatbelts are more prone to reckless driving, and your insurance rates would not go down. The population who wear seat belts are more prone to reckless driving. Speeding, texting, changing lanes without looking or using a turn signal,…

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    Lillian Bonine Mrs. King ELA 8th hour 07 April 2017 Seat belt importance Can seat belts really save you life? People are losing their lives everyday and costing billions to themselves and their government because they are making the decision to not wear their seat belt. So, the seat belt law to continue to be enforced. According to some statistics people that don’t wear seatbelts are at higher risk of injury in car crashes and are more likely to lose their life. Kathyrn O'Leary Higgins states…

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    Explorer 1 Essay

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    2, this satellite was able to get results. Explorer 3 deceased after 93 days in orbit. Next up in the Explorer Program was Explorer 4, it was created to study the Van Allen radiation belts and the effects of nuclear detonations on it. It became the first satellite to evaluate electric particles in the radiation belt. This was the last Explorer satellite (in the series) to make it into orbit. The last satellite in the Explorer Program (in the first series), was Explorer 5, it failed to make it…

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    the solar system. It wasn't much longer before its classification was in questioned, as a result people started saying that it was not a planet no more, but the classification was now a Kuiper Belt left over. "The Kuiper Belt was discovered by Gerard Kuiper, he was an Astronomer who predicated the existence of a belt of icy objects just beyond the orbit of Neptune"…

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    The Hunt for Planet X Ever since the proposition of a ninth planet within our solar system by Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo in 2014 (Hunt 1) the hunt has been on for the elusive object. The use of extreme Kuiper Belt objects (eKBOs) which are objects believed to not be significantly influenced by Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, contributed to the idea of another object in the solar system influencing them (Malhotra 1). The study of the eKBOs orbit around our sun lead to the…

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    What Is Pluto?

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    So, in 1992, they found a vast army of frozen bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, now known as the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper belt contains ice bodies at temperatures maybe 200 degrees colder than a room full of ice. Pluto is not alone; out there keeping Pluton accompanied is an immense ring of ice and rocks that define the backyard boundary of our solar system. Some of these objects in the Kuiper Belt are the size of a mountain, some are large like cities and some much larger like the size of…

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    Pluto is widely known as the tiniest planet in the solar system. Pluto is also the ninth planet closest to the sun. Pluto is now referred to as a ‘dwarf planet’ and is the smallest than any other the other planets. Though smaller than the popular planets in the solar system, Pluto is the largest dwarf planet. Some time ago, Pluto was discharged and lost its’ title to be declared a planet thanks to scientists and geographers. It is a planet that has been long overdue some attention apart from…

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    Processed meteorites are fragments of larger asteroids that underwent differentiation. 8. The Kuiper Belt is a ring of comets that orbit the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. The Oort cloud is located in the the outer solar system and the comets orbit around the Sun.These were developed from planetesimals that were thrown outward after their formation between the Jovian planets. However the Kuiper Belt comets that formed still remain in the outer regions of the planetary realm. 14. If Jupiter…

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