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    Why Fund NASA

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    NASA is trying to fund asteroid studies. The people in NASA believe it could do a lot of good. They want to use the asteroids to our advantage. However, some people are unsure about whether NASA should or not. I believe NASA should fund these studies because of Earth’s safety, mining asteroids, and price. Asteroids left unchecked can be very dangerous to Earth. According to the Crater Data Chart, some craters have a diameter of “300 km”. That would cause so much destruction if it landed in a place

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    consequences of developments in future space exploration in scientific perspective. The author states the development of future space exploration by using resources from the solar system will produce varies beneficial results, such as space tourism, asteroid resources, and so on. The main beneficiary among all the others is science. Supported by space resources, the growth of space economy can provide the cost of building scientific instruments, outposts, and infrastructures in space. Improvement in

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    action movies that grab the audience attention, but later on realize the negligent science that was presented. The 1998 movie, Armageddon is a great example. “The premise of the movie is that a giant asteroid is going to hit the Earth and wipe out all life” (Phil Plate). As I watched the movie, an asteroid is headed to Earth, and is told that this was the Dinosaur Killer 65 million years ago. It was stated that the force was “10,000 nuclear weapons” as it exploded. If it were to be calculated it would

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    Talullah Lennon The Cause: An Asteroid is formed in the inner solar system in a particular part called the Asteroid Belt, when small particles of rock and metal collide with each other, and slowly build up over time. Planets are formed the same way as asteroids, but what stops asteroids from growing and becoming a planet is due to the gravitationally pull of Jupiter. The asteroid belt lies between Jupiter and mars. Because of Jupiter's gravitationally pull the asteroid goes at a highly increased speed

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    Fortunately, that is how he met the little prince. Lonely boy, who had left his asteroid B 612 and his beloved rose and began to explore different asteroids by travelling from one to another. Connection and understanding between them is on the very begging clear, because little prince was the only one who was able to notice the drawing of the boa constrictor. Once again

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    Alvarez Hypothesis

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    conclusion that an asteroid that had a width of 10 kilometers crashed at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico around about 65 million years ago (this around the same time the dinosaurs went extinct. (Pilkington, 2001) If the asteroid had hit, most of the cretaceous plants would have been destroyed thus the dinosaurs at the bottom of the food chain would soon have died due to lack of food. This led to the dinosaurs at

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    Soviet satellite’s travels. It first traveled to Jupiter and eventually left our solar system. The satellite reached a huge asteroid with the diameter of 500 kilometers roughly 1/6 the diameter of the moon. The satellite orbited the asteroid, just by accident the satellite’s messages were received on earth. Those messages revealed that the satellite was on its way home and the asteroid was coming with it. If it hit earth all of life on earth cease, if it missed then the earth would be pushed too close

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    them? A lot of people believe that the the extinction of dinosaurs was from a huge asteroid that killed them. But theories say that was just the final blow to end off the dinosaurs. People say they were dying before that due to climate change. People are skeptical that if it missed dinosaurs and humans would have live together or would they have not. The dinosaurs died due to the climate change but also a asteroid. “History” Paleontologist believe that the dinosaurs were already dying rapidly due

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    Steroid Lab Report

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    The experiment investigates the damage that asteroids do when they hit the Earth, focusing on the size of the crater left behind. This is done with the use of a golf ball and a tray of sand. It was discovered that the height that the golf ball (asteroid) was released from is directly proportional to the size of the crater. To investigate the relationship between the height of release of the object and the size of the crater left when the object hits the sand. As the distance that the object is

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    A Bill For An Act Entitled: Budget Of NASA Senator Austin Crilly introduced the following resolution which was referred to the Committee on NASA’s budget _____________________________________________________________________ NASA has accomplished many things in the last fifty five years of it’s existence, such as the Apollo programs, Mars missions, developing the proficiency in which aircraft flies, etc. NASA has tremendous benefits towards the future expansion and development of the United

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