Genre: Short Story Setting: Tokyo‚ Japan Charecters/Characterezation: Mrs.Shoichi Ikeya: mother of Kaoru Kaoru Ikeya: 19 year old boy that discover his own comet Ikeya 1963 that has been observing the sky for a long time. Mr. Ikeya: father of Kaoru‚ gives oppressive burden of shame to their family name. Minoru Honda: astronomer‚ discovered nine comets Vocabulary Words * Stifle ~ To keep in or hold back * Anticipation ~ An expectation * Distasteful ~ Expressing aversion or dislike * Reluctant
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International(yes) Regional Local Headline: comet strikes may have jump-started life on earth Summary: Life’s building blocks can form in the hardest environments like deep space‚ some new study suggests‚ that a comet or meteorite strike may have started the life on Earth. There are Linked pairs of amino acids that are called dipeptides‚ they can take shapes in hard conditions. These Dipeptides we’re brought to Earth from a comet or meteorite billions of years ago may have then made
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(excluding costs of Tosco’s internal staff and ongoing maintenance costs of COMETS) over the initial approved budget‚ COMETS was a success. Unlike many IT projects that are scrapped after millions have been spent‚ COMETS worked and had allowed Tosco to grow through major acquisitions‚ even during the implementation process‚ without adding many more personnel. However‚ implementing COMETS was far from smooth or easy. The COMETS project was finished. Donna reflected on the whole experience. Project
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This essay is of a woman astronomer Caroline Herschel. Herschel was the first lady to discover a comet. The reason why I chose this topic is because apart from being a women astronomer she also showed her prominence in mathematics. She hailed from a musician background but her fortune brought her to the field of astronomy and today we stand witnessing vital discoveries such as of comets‚ which is a very significant topic of research in this modern era. She has been recognized and honored worldwide
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Here‚ the ice boils away to form an enormous head and a long tail. As a comet travels‚ it sheds bits of itself; from Earth‚ these are seen as showers of light called meteors. Astronomers would love to get a hold of a comet sample because it would be a piece of evidence from the birth of the Solar System. Comets have been observed and recorded for thousands of years but they have not always been understood. They were once called “hairy stars”
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sporadics. MeteorMost of the regular‚ annual showers are produced by small debris‚ meteoroids - typically a couple of millimetres in diameter‚ shed by comets when close to the Sun. The debris continues in its own orbit around the Sun‚ and successive returns of the parent comet to the inner solar system feed more material into the stream. Halley’s Comet‚ for example‚ has laid down an extensive stream through which Earth runs twice each year‚ in May and October. Since they share a common orbital motion
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famous legend of Mrs O’Leary and her cow? Why not Pegleg Sullivan the one who first noticed the barn spark up in flames. The most responsible and logical answer to all this Biela’s comet. Could have pieces of Biela’s comet scattered around the Chicago area? The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was started by Biela’s comet. In Wisconsin‚Michigan‚ and Chicago on the year 1871 there was a fire as great as the one in Chicago. In the state of Michigan‚ Peshtigo Wisconsin‚
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NASA launched a satellite to orbit Saturn and its moons in 1997‚ it was fittingly named Cassini. EDMOND HALLEY Halley was a British scientist who lived from 1656-1742. He was the one who reviewed historical comet sightings and proposed that the comet which appeared in 1456‚ 1531‚ 1607‚ and 1682 were all the same‚ and would return in 1758. Although he died before its
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However‚ each time a comet passes by the sun through its orbit pattern‚ it loses so much of its material compound that it could not last longer than roughly one-hundred thousand years. Due to research‚ scientist have given comets an average age of ten-thousand years before they disintegrate. Scientist explain this theory by examining where comets actually come from. Comets originate in an unobserved spherical “Oort Cloud” well beyond the orbit of
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NOSTRADAMUS – WORLD WAR III The Beginning [I.63] Pestilences extinguished‚ the world becomes smaller‚ for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully. People will travel safely through the sky‚ land and seas : then wars will start up again This quatrain is considered to be the quatrain which indicate the start of WW-III. The scenario described in this quatrain is definitely a modern world scenario as is describes air travel. Air travel became commercially available only after WW-II
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