Lonely planet Introduction: * Type of organization: Lonely Planet has a internal culture in there company. That means that employees are free to be themselves‚ to exchange ideas and try new approaches to problems. The work space in informal and open‚ so that people can communicate easily with each other. * History: The company was founded in 1972 by the couple Tony and Maureen Wheeler. Their passion is traveling. They went on vacation and they wrote a traveling book so that they can
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1. Mercury - Smallest and innermost planet. Venus – Second planet from the sun. Rotates in the opposite direction than most other planets. Earth – Third planet from the sun. Known as the only planet to harbor life. Mars – Fourth planet from the sun and the second smallest in the solar system. Jupiter – The fifth planet from the sun and the largest in the solar system. Saturn – Sixth planet from the sun. Only planet with a ring around it. Uranus – Seventh planet from the sun. Third largest planetary
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BETA PICTORIS: PLANETS? LIFE? OR WHAT? JARA ASTRONOMY 102 SEC 013 The ultimate question is; Is there a possibility that life might exist on a planet in the Beta Pictoris system? First‚ one must ask‚ Are there planets in the Beta Pictoris system?. However‚ that question would be impossible to answer if one did not answer the most basic questions first; Where do planets come from? and do the key elements and situations‚ needed to form planets‚ exist in the Beta Pictoris system?.
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Earth-like Planets‚ Life or Lifeless? For centuries man has looked at the sky‚ and wondered‚ is someone looking back? Science is now closer than ever to answering this quest that is nearly as old as mankind itself. In the last century new technologies and scientific break-throughs have showed us that planets do exist in other solar systems and that there is a probability for other earth-like planets. We have also recognized the parameters and building blocks for life as we know them on earth
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Rachel Linzay English 101 8:00am MWF Argument Essay April 21‚ 2014 There has been a lot of controversy over whether or not there is life on other planets. An easy way to look at the Earth compared to the Universe is to compare it to fish in a pond. Fish have no knowledge of any other fish existing outside of their pond. How would they? Their minds are not complex enough to understand humans‚ fish‚ or any other things exist besides what is in their
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Mars the Red Planet Mars is a very popular planet. Everything from its fascinating color‚ history and myth of Martian existence there. Movies and articles like The war of the Worlds have been made and published on what society believes life and Martians would have been like. Moreover‚ from the research and fascinating facts that I have encountered about Mars‚ I have found more interesting facts that caught my attention. Such as its appearance‚ placement in the solar system‚ composition‚ discovery
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Dr. Atticus Brent‚ Jacobs Corp‚ Day 1 on Planet Argolis. My officers have decided to send me to this planet‚ in search of supposed alien artifacts that were found on this planet. The same kind of find that made our competitors‚ the FEAT Corporation‚ the industrial giants that they are today. In my opinion‚ a kind of find this big on such a desolate rock would seem absurdly rare. It’s been only a few hours on this planet‚ and I already know it’s going to be the death of me. Scientists do not chase
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Galileo and Copernicus were two extremely influential astronomers. They believed in the heliocentric model of our solar system‚ or the idea that the planets revolved around the Sun. We all accept this model today as fact‚ but back in their time‚ the thought of it was pure blasphemy. The widely accepted idea at the time‚ as supported by the almighty Catholic Church‚ was the geocentric model. In this model‚ the Earth is central to nearly everything‚ and is orbited by the Sun‚ moon‚ and other special
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February 21‚ 2013 Where do planets come from? Abstract Astronomers have spent many centuries wondering how our solar system and its planets came to be. We could only see the end result of planet formation‚ not the process itself. And we had no other examples to study. Even with the knowledge gained about other solar system‚ we were left to wonder‚ are there other planetary systems out there‚ and did they form like ours? This project leads you to find out how mighty planets are formed from cosmic dust
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Ever since grade school you were taught that our solar system has nine planets. Sadly that is no longer the case; in 2006 astronomers have decided that Pluto no longer qualifies as a planet. Pluto is now considered a “Dwarf Planet” and has caused a lot of controversy among astronomers. A dwarf planet is not even considered to be a planet‚ and there are projected to be hundreds of them in our galaxy. Pluto is being demoted to what amounts as a third class citizen in our galaxy. Thousands of textbooks
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