Near-Earth object

(Small Worlds).NASA’s 2016 budget is set at 19.3 Billion dollars, while the EPA’s budget for protecting the Earth is set at 8.14 Billion dollars. As to the question of whether the benefits out weighting the costs, it isn’t a straight forward yes or no question. It is not possible to foresee if the benefits to come will be worth the price we are paying to date…

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 Sun. It is so vast that 1,300,000 Earth’s can fit inside of it! It is 864,400 miles wide! If you think…

basic human want to know if we really are the only form of life in the universe and if there are any other planets out there with the same conditions needed for life as on Earth. Kepler has been “specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine the fraction of the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy that might have such planets.”(“Mission Overview | NASA”) Kepler is able…

I believe that knowing the impermanence of Earth us humans have and extreme obligation to find and explore habitable worlds out side of Earth. Furthermore, impermanence is the decline or depletion of a mental or compounded object(s) during a continuous change in condition. Humans have not only destroyed our home planet we have depleted it to where will will not be about to sustain life in the future. Therefore, I feel that it is really important to find ways to improve our daily lifestyle habits…

His peers did not believe the model proposed because, to them, it would mean that the Earth would have to move. The idea of Earth moving went against their senses and physics evidence of their time (Hawley and Holcomb pg. 34). The Greeks believed that stars were located very near to Earth and if the Earth moved then at different times the stars would appear to be closer, brighter and more luminous. Those that did not believe the heliocentric…

pieces of paper which I taped to the wall next to my desk. As an object, it can be interpreted as an icon, in accordance with Peirce’s categories, which defines an icon as a sign that “resembles its conceptual object in certain ways”, duplicating this properties and principles (Huhtamo, “Basic Concepts” 258). It acts as an icon representing days of the month and time passing, both of which are concepts rather than physical objects. It shows how the days are organized and how I have planned my…

Thinking about the universe can be a difficult task for countless amounts of human beings. When you factor in that earth is our home, also that that we have been here since the day we were born; it can be a hassle to explain to an individual that in addition to us there are possibly space inhabitants in the universe. This could possibly be a highly advanced being or maybe a Black Hole. Innumerable amounts of people have grown a phobia of black holes. This can mainly be blamed on the fact that…

is billions times bigger than our sun. It started of small but the massive amount of gas and dust allowed the black hole to grow into a giant. Scientist can't actually look at the black hole but they can see how it has a gravitational effect on objects near it. Scientist believe that most galaxies have black holes in a galaxies…

other, curving down into the mantle so the surface area of the Earth remains constant. In other words, seafloor spreading is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity to help and explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics (Condie,…

I suppose you could say earth was always doomed, these creatures have been planning, strategizing. Perhaps even since man-kind began, there’s no telling. But one thing’s for sure, they’ve been watching us for years. It was October 30th 1939 when these extraterrestrials made themselves known to us humans. I was driving past a suburban area in New Jersey listening to the radio when a professor in Illinois reported seeing 3 explosions happening at equal intervals on mars. I remember Professor…