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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
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diatomaceous earth
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The Earthly Paradise
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brown earth
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syzygy
syzygy , in astronomy, alignment of three bodies of the solar system along a straight or nearly straight line. A planet is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is in opposition or conjunction , i.e., when its elongation is 180° or 0°. The moon is in syzygy with the earth and sun... Read more |
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Torino Scale
Torino scale Advanced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Richard P. Binzel in 1995, the Torino scale is a revision of the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index. In 1999, the International Conference on Near-Earth objects adopted the scale at a meeting in Turino (Turin), Italy (from which... Read more |
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precession of the equinoxes
precession of the equinoxes westward motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic . This motion was first noted by Hipparchus c.120 BC The precession is due to the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun on the equatorial bulge of the earth, which causes the earth's axis to describe a cone in... Read more |
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Van Allen radiation belts
Van Allen radiation belts two belts (sometimes considered as a single belt of varying intensity) of radiation outside the earth's atmosphere, extending from c.400 to c.40,000 mi (c.650-c.65,000 km) above the earth. Their existence was confirmed from information secured by launching the first U.S.... Read more |
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radar astronomy
radar astronomy application of radar to the determination of distances and planetary features within the solar system, such as rotation rates. A short burst of radio waves is transmitted in the direction of the object under study. The object reflects the radio waves back to earth, where they are... Read more |
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asteroid
asteroid planetoid, or minor planet, small body orbiting the sun. More than 10,000 asteroids have orbits sufficiently well known to have been cataloged and named; thousands more exist. Most asteroids are irregularly shaped, unlike the spherically shaped major planets. The largest... Read more |
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The asteroid that killed Dino
...many times of an asteroid that slammed into...OntarioA: The asteroid believed to have...west of Cancun. The asteroid is believed to have...diameter, and it struck Earth 65 million years...because the price tag is $165 million...decided not ... |
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Sky Watch; A Comet's Tale
...Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research project...closest approach to the Earth will be on July 22...through the middle of Earth's shadow and totality...July. Down-to-Earth Events * Tomorrow...sunset re-created, tag ... |
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Rudy, the Cubs and a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
...Bar" (1982); "Kiss Your Asteroid Goodbye! Meteor Misses Earth" (1998). But the sight of...corporation, one with a price tag _ I mean value _ estimated as...any interest in buying the Cubs along with him. I don't know if... |
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GREEN SLIME COMING, BOY IS IT PISSED
...When a wandering asteroid (code named 'Flora...collision course with Earth, studly astronauts...Elliott lead a rag-tag team whose goal is to land on the asteroid, strategically place...and in surface lots along Wilmington and Edenton... |
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And Now for Something Completely Different
...headlines for each passing cycle, generally tags along for the ride. Of course, there'll be a...course, those frightening headlines about an asteroid heading for a possible collision with Earth in 2028 -- front page of the New York Times... |
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NASA flight to Vesta, Ceres to run on exotic ion power: Spacecraft's trip...
...the first from Earth to orbit two celestial...mission's price tag, NASA officials...dwarf planet," along with Pluto and Eris...Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars), and...The rubble in the asteroid belt might have consolidated...the time. The two ... |
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Visiting many worlds.(Editorials)(Unmanned probes going lots of...
...that will return to Earth with samples of martian...spacecraft and its tag-along Huygens probe, launched...Venus, two different asteroids and two different...and will return to Earth in September. A...Meanwhile, the price ... |
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Studying the scientists who are studying the Arctic crater with geological...
...William J. Clancey tags along when NASA researchers...formed when an asteroid struck Devon Island...was like Mars on Earth, a Mars park, if...be transmitted to Earth for transcription...getting it back to Earth and ... |
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Scientists Study Arctic Crater
...William J. Clancey tags along when NASA researchers...formed when an asteroid struck Devon Island...was like Mars on Earth, a Mars park, if...be transmitted to Earth for transcription...getting it back to Earth and ... |
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Armageddon.
...adventure, a rag-tag group of astronauts...on a Texas-sized asteroid and blow it up. If the rock-cruising along at 22,000 miles per hour-hits the earth, that'll be the...simpleland on the speeding asteroid, drill into its surface... |
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