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    UB313‚ Eris or Xena [pic]Discovery images of the dwarf planet Eris. The three images were taken 1 1/2 hours apart on the night of October 21st‚ 2003. Eris can be seen very slowly moving across the sky over the course of 3 hours. Eris was discovered in July‚ 2005 by Mike Brown of CalTech and his team. Eris was originally named Xena or UB313 but re-named Eris by the IAU (International Astronomical Union). On 10th September 2005‚ astronomers at the Keck Observatory took a look at Eris with a new

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    Devil in the White City Book Summary The Devil in the White City‚ written by Eric Larson‚ is a gripping novel of two polar opposite men during the building of the World’s Fair in Chicago. It surrounds two characters‚ both extremely talented at their ‘craft’ and perfectly depicts the rush for industrialization in this time. It follows the lives of Daniel H. Burnham‚ the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures‚ and Henry H. Holmes‚ a serial

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    Savan‚ an author‚ delves into this trend of marketing to teenagers in her excerpt‚ What ’s Black‚ Then White‚ and Said All Over? She explains how advertising has adapted to using black vernacular to attract a young or a ’wannabe cool ’ crowd. Savan states‚ “Since at least the early nineties‚ with hip-hop an entrenched‚ virtually mainstream hit‚ wannabe has been far more likely to refer to whites‚ especially teenagers‚ who want to be black or do the style” (370). By the early nineties black slang

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    By JANET MASLIN Published: February 10‚ 2003 THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY Murder‚ Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America By Erik Larson Illustrated. 447 pages. Crown Publishers. $25.95. As part of his research for ’’The Devil in the White City’’ Erik Larson visited the part of Graceland cemetery where members of Chicago’s turn-of-the-century elite are enshrined. As he puts it‚ ’’On a crystalline fall day you can almost hear the tinkle of fine crystal‚ the rustle of silk

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    Pluto: No Longer a Planet

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    Once known as the ninth planet of the solar system‚ Pluto is now the second-largest dwarf planet. Composed primarily of ice and rock‚ Pluto took part of our Solar System for 76 years. It was discovered on January 23‚ 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked at the Lowell Obeservatory. Tombaugh had been working on a project when he came across a moving object in photographs he had taken of the celestial sky. After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious

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    tales have remained famous and popular as they all contain moral lessons and values‚ and also add hopeful alternatives to the story. In 2012‚ a feature film called Snow White and the Huntsman was released and composed by Rupert Sanders. In Snow White and the Huntsman an evil Queen‚ Ravena‚ takes over a kingdom while a princess‚ Snow White‚ is locked in a prison cell keeping her away from being the rightful heir. The princess escapes the kingdom and plans a revenge for Queen Ravena. In this film‚ Sanders

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    Michael E. Brown was born on June 5th‚ 1965. He is a famous astronomer known for his work on distant objects (beyond Neptune) orbiting the sun. His biggest achievement is the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris‚ which is larger than Pluto. Personal Life and Career Mike Brown is from Huntsville‚ Alabama. He studied at the Virgil I. Grissom High School from which he graduated in 1983. In 1987‚ he earned his Bachelor of Arts in physics from Princeton University and he was also a member of the Princeton

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    mission. For these reasons and much more pluto should be considered a planet with the overwhelming data‚ the illiterate classifications for planets‚ and overall lack of information given about pluto. If we do however overturn the idea that pluto is a dwarf planet this would lead a whole new world of discovery and maturing of the notion that our universe is ever changing. After all we only know so much about our universe. Works Cited "One Year Later: New Horizons’ Top 10 Discoveries at Pluto."

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    Pluto is different from the other planets because it is a dwarf planet and it’s far away from the other planets and the sun so that means it is also the coldest plant which is -400 degrees F .and as it states on the Nasa website that there are no known rings around Pluto’s atmosphere and if Pluto was a planet it’s would be the smallest plant In the solar system .the farthest away from the sun 248 year is going to delay. Compared to the pattern of the planets is your terrestrial inner

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    “ Pluto is a Disney character who has been in 48 of his own cartoons‚ which makes him a star‚ not a planet.” . The reason the size matters is because it is so small it can not clear other objects out of its path. It is now referred to as a dwarf planet. A dwarf planet orbits the sun

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