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    The Carrington Event and Emergency Preparedness The Carrington Event of 1859 was a giant solar storm that occurred by the sun that affected earth. How solar flares and solar storms occur is first they start off by the lines of the magnetic fields that sometimes overlap each other. As a result of this overlap, they can sometimes get tangled, which will cause the sun’s atmosphere to explode due to the magnetic fields overlapping and getting tangled with each other. The sun's spots on the sun…

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    the breaks in my shocked state. And after a moment’s hesitation I drove towards the small crowd forming around the landing. We were told that it was simply a meteor soaring in the sky, however it was obvious when we saw it that it was no regular meteorite. It was a spaceship of the sorts, dug half into the ground. About…

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    Essay On Sauropods

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    According to the theory of natural selection, the Sauropods 's long neck is an adaptation for browsing high vegetations. Also, their long neck was also adapted for a large feeding envelope because they need to hold their food while moving from one tree to another. Their huge body is used to store food too. Sauropods ' bodies are big because they have a large digestive tract to store food inside until they get to the next vegetation area as well. The sauropods ' bodies were also used to scare…

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    Same people, as always, due the the flamboyant style of the bar. It was a small village, almost barricaded and completely isolated from the rest of the world by the huge mountains formed by the crater that we inhabit. Some say the remains of the meteorite make you deranged, and act as such. Just common superstition, many jaded, weathered men tell tall tales of eerie experiences and of staring death boldly in the eye and laughing. This was Metoville. A sprawling collection of houses, a town…

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    How satellites have been used to help society? A satellite is a space body which has been created by colliding of two or more space objects (for ex. meteorites). There are two types of satellites: natural satellites (like moon, an earth’s satellite) and man-made (artificial), satellites launched to the orbit by people. Natural satellites A natural satellite is space body that orbits another space body bigger than itself. Natural satellites are not man-made satellites. They come from space…

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    Pillars Of Islam

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    For many in todays world it is believe that the Islamic faith has only been around for a few hundred years. In fact, the Islamic religion is perhaps one of the oldest religions on earth. Throughout history the Islamic faith has been tested time and again, and even in todays world is still split between two main groups. However, as time has advanced so has the Islamic culture. The practice of Islam involved many things, however early on it mainly consisted of “Arabs who were polytheistic,…

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    our little scientific team, Harrison Brown knew the most about meteors. We used his knowledge on them in order to understand how to determine the origin of different elements. We did this through the processing and analyzing of data collected from meteorites. When I met Edward Goldberg, my scientific focus shifted towards lead. ‘What is lead?’ you may ask. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it is “a bluish-white soft malleable ductile plastic but inelastic heavy metallic element…

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    Research Paper On Sulfur

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    is 32.065 and its mass number is 32. Sulfur comes from the Sanskrit word “Sulvere” and also the latin word “Sulphurium”. Sulfur was discovered in Ancient times and has been mentioned in both the Bible and the Torah. Sulfur is commonly found in meteorites, volcanoes, hot springs, and as galena, gypsum, Epsom salts, and barite. Naturally occurring sulphur is yellow and is often found as a crystal. Sulphur is non-reactive when at normal temperatures. Today a lot of people find sulfur underground…

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    telling us. Alistair said it’s civil war. I don't know how they fight their own people. And now we are fighting China, Russia, and Iran as well. Everyday thing's keep getting crazier.” Storm told his father about the dead couple in the car hit by a meteorite, and the meeting with Martyn and what he had said. After hearing Storm’s story Pete shook his head. “When I was a kid a jubilee was a religious holiday. We raised money at a market day. Grandmas and aunties selling bottled pickles and jam.…

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    And finally, cosmogenous sediments like tektite spheres and glassy nodules is the dust from space like meteorites and other space debris also 1% on the ocean floor. Most marine sediments are covering continental slopes (41% in volume) and continental rises (31% in volume). Continental shelves have only 15 percent and the deep ocean floors only 13 percent in…

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