ICE The book I chose to read is Frozen Earth: Explaining the Ice Age by R. V. Fodor‚ the associate Professor of Geology at North Carolina State University. It presents the recent discoveries and history of the ice age in an easy-understanding and accessible way. He first begins with a little background of ice ages. He then talks about glaciers and how they form and act. Then he talks about the different theories of how this happened. He concludes with speaking of the future and the climate
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The Kuiper Belt The Kuiper Belt is a thick ecliptic band which contains over 200 million small‚ icy objects. These objects‚ known as the Kuiper Belt Objects or trans- Neptunians‚ were discovered in 1992 by Jewitt and Lu. The first Kuiper Belt Object discovered in 1992‚ is QB1 (1992) and is 150 miles wide. The Kuiper Belt is about 30 AU to 50 AU away from the Sun. The Kuiper Belt is very important because of two specific things; the first being‚ Kuiper Belt Objects are remnants from the earliest
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3.3. Moons of Uranus 3.3.1 Introduction Uranus‚ the seventh planet of the Solar System‚ has 27 known moons. Uranus’s moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons‚ five major moons‚ and nine irregular moons. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with the Uranus’s rings‚ the five major moons (Miranda‚ Ariel‚ Umbriel‚ Titania‚ and Oberon) are massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium. They range in diameter from 472 km for Miranda
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Final Exam - Review Guide Test Date: Tuesday‚ May 7th (8:00-10:00 pm) Format: Multiple choice. Please bring a small scantron form. Blue books will not be needed. The final exam will be composed of two sections: Section 1: All lecture material since the 2nd test Text chapters: 7 (clouds and fog)‚ 8‚ 9 Section 2: Cumulative portion covering material covered up to test 2‚ includes only material related to the terms/concepts listed in this section. Section 1 – New Material ATMOSPHERIC
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from your horizon due north‚ through your zenith‚ to your horizon due south.E) It cuts the dome of your sky exactly in half | | Definition C) It represents an extension of Earth’s equator onto the celestial sphere. | | | Term What is the ecliptic?A) the constellations commonly used in astrology to predict the futureB) the Sun’s daily path across the skyC) the Sun’s apparent path along the celestial sphereD) when the Moon passes in front of the SunE) the Moon’s apparent path along the celestial
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Biography Name While there is a tendency to misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" by analogy with other names having the "bhatta" suffix‚ his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells his name thus‚[1] including Brahmagupta’s references to him "in more than a hundred places by name".[2] Furthermore‚ in most instances "Aryabhatta" does not fit the metre either.[1] [edit] Birth Aryabhata mentions in the Aryabhatiya that it was composed 3‚600 years into the Kali Yuga‚ when
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GUIDANCE WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS Career planning is a process which helps someone to make a well informed realistic decision (WIRD) about a career. It is a step by step process to help make a transition and can help to measure the progress made (route map) by first establishing which way is forward. Step One: Engagement / Motivation. The first step is the most crucial one. There could be a number of reasons why someone is not engaging‚ such as fear or attitude. A person first of all needs
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Class description: non-mathematical presentation of our knowledge of the universe. Includes birth and death of stars‚ formation of solar system‚ black holes‚ quasars‚ and the fourth dimension. Instructor: Erin O’ Connor Office: EBS112 Email: eboconnor@pipeline.sbcc.edu Office Hours: Monday- After class at 11 am and email. Tuesday- After class at 9:05 pm and email. Wednesday- EBS112 After class at 11 am (PS101) and email. Thursday- EBS112 email for appointment. Friday- EBS112 email for
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Celestial Navigation is the art and science of finding your way by the sun‚ moon‚ stars‚ and planets‚ and‚ in one form or another‚ is one of the oldest practices in human history. Celestial navigation‚ also known as astronavigation‚ is a position fixing technique that has evolved over several thousand years to help sailors cross oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations‚ or dead reckoning‚ to know their position. Celestial navigation uses "sights‚" or angular measurements taken between
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Britannica: “The madrasahs generally offered instruction in both the religious sciences and other branches of knowledge. The contribution of these institutions to the advancement of knowledge was vast. Muslim scholars calculated the angle of the ecliptic; measured the size of the Earth; calculated the precession of the equinoxes; explained‚ in the field of optics and physics‚ such phenomena as refraction of light‚ gravity‚ capillary attraction‚ and twilight; and developed observatories for the empirical
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