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    of stars galaxies, suns, solar systems and planets. Everyday there are sightings all over the world by citizens, commercial pilots, and military personnel. I think we have been visited and offered help to benefit mankind with technologies that can alleviate us from dependence on fossil fuels and oil dependence. We probably been warned of the dangers that we are imposing on plants, animals, water, and environment. What effects this planet probably effect the entire solar system. The government…

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    There are two ways the earth rotates. It rotates around the sun and spins. When the earth orbits around the sun and gives us our year. Seasons are different times in the year when the earth gets hot on one side and cold on the other. I am going to talk about how the seasons are created and why they occur at different times in the year. At different times in the earths orbit it is a different distance away from the sun. When the earth is closest to the sun it is called the perihelion. When…

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    I’ve chosen solar powered cars as my topic of choice, my knowledge is limited on the subject. Solar powered cars don’t use fossil fuels, so they don’t cause pollution making them environmentally friendly, which is ideal. They get their energy from the sun, through solar panels that store energy in batteries, or battery packs. The process that this happens in, is conversion of energy through photovoltaic cells. These cells are what makeup a solar panel, made up of semiconductors usually silicon.…

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    for the solar system but it has yet to be colonized by humans. Mars has “remains of dried-up riverbed… carved by water” (Sparrow 98) showing that liquid water was once on the surface of Mars but has since disappeared. Mars has had many rovers land on its surface and explore its terrain but all of those rovers have not found anything more than “minerals that can form only in the presence of water” (Bell 31). With more funding, as NASA has gotten “$1.5 billion per year… priorities in our solar…

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    one of the largest and most beautiful stars, but it is not the largest (sun facts). Our sun is classified as a dwarf star, and the biggest star is called Red Giants(sun facts) although the sun is not the largest it is still the biggest object in our solar system, so large that it can fit around one million earths inside(sun facts). “Over the course of human history the sun has been feared and worshipped”(sun facts). Was it because of its natural beauty? The sun is essential to life,it provides…

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    Today I woke up the it was January,15,3000 half of the population is aliens in the year 3000. In the year 2600 250,000 aliens arrived on planet earth now their population is 8 billion. ordinarily humans have 1 or 2 children aliens have 8 or 9 kids , another reason their population is so high since aliens live millions of years. The aliens run planet earth if any humans get outta line they put them in alien jail. Aliens have killed many people, especially when they first arrived on planet…

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    M6 Book Review State the book's thesis. “Five Equations that Changed the World” book consists the discovery of five remarkable equations of five notable scientists from 17th-20th centuries and their outcomes till 20th century. This book is divided into five chapters. The introduction of each chapter begins with some affected incident in the main character's life which helps the reader to follow the next part. After the introduction, there are three parts, which author labeled as Veni, Vidi,…

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    owe their lives to the deaths of stars? • These stars created us occurring to science. 2. What's a nebula? • A cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and gas. 3. Explain the process by which a star is formed. • Gas and dust form in a size 10 times our solar system. 4. What creates a star’s heat/energy (use the words hydrogen and helium in your answer). • Burning hydrogen and converting it into helium. 5. What's the most common type of star? • Red Dwarfs. 6. Why do bigger stars die faster than…

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    The Greek Solar System

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    What is the solar system? The solar system is the what we call home, it is the collection of the eight planets and their moons. These celestial objects orbit around the sun, although this was not always the case back in 140 AD Claudius Ptolemy contemplated with the idea or theory of a geocentric universe. The literal definition of geocentrism is having the earth as the center of the universe and the at the other celestial objects orbiting the earth. Theses celestial objects are called planets.…

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    Tycho Brahe's Astronomy

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    With the help of Tycho Brahe's observations, Kepler discovered that the orbits of the planets can be described with a curve. By trial and error, he discovered that an ellipse with the sun could accurately describe the path of a planet about the sun. Ellipses (which does not look like the usual circle, but as an egg) is described mainly by the length of its two axes. A circle has the same diameter if we measure it across or up and down. However, an ellipse has diameters of different lengths. The…

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