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    We should fund asteroid studies because we can get resource money and protection. With resources we can build new inventions and help out the world and be able to do all kinds of different things. Money we can sell some of the resources and have more projects for space and more also get us out of dent and help us all. Protection more we study them more we know about them more we know we can use against asteroids and pull them away from hitting earth or capture them to for more studies. This why NASA

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    Extinction of Dinosaurs due to Asteroid Impact Nobody knows for sure exactly how the dinosaurs became extinct. However scientists have speculated for decades about possible events that caused the dinosaurs to die out. Possibilities range from asteroids, to volcanoes, to climate changes. One of the more popular or well-known extinction theories involves the belief that an asteroid struck the Earth, causing devastating effects, and triggering mass extinctions around the end of the Cretaceous

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    studying asteroid? Many people want NASA to fund asteroid studies, but others think that it is just a waste of time and money. I think that we should fund asteroid studies for a number of reasons. First, we can find a ways to protect the earth. Second, we can have more discoveries. Finally, to find more resources. One of the reasons I think that NASA should fund asteroid studies to protect the earth. There are many reasons to protect the earth and one of them is from asteroids. When

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    The NY Times article, “NASA Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System’s Roots” discusses the Osiris-Rex’s mission, which is to “fly to an asteroid, grab some of the rock and bring it back to earth, where scientists will study some of the pristine ingredients that went into the making of the solar system, including possible the building clocks of life.” Osiris-Rex is a spacecraft that is being sent by NASA to retrieve organic material from the asteroid Bennu. The Osiris-Rex is short for Origins

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    Grade 11 SUBJECT DETAILS SUBJECT Physics Year 2015 TEACHER Term 2 UNIT TITLE “Falling” Celestial Bodies: Asteroid Trajectory and Impact Duration 4 weeks General Assessment Information This is an individual, non-experimental research based assessment item. Students may however, work collaboratively in class during the first week to develop an

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    Planetary Defense

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    of a catastrophic asteroid impact to Earth .Any planetary defense created by the human race must start with an excellent detection and tracking system. The second layer of defense involves deflecting truly dangerous asteroids away from orbits intercepting Earth. Research has identified many options to mitigate the danger of asteroid impact. The options for asteroid defense are widely varied and can provide customizable missions to deflect any realistic scenario for an asteroid impact. But, before

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    7. The asteroid that is travelling at constant speed would not be accelerating, since constant speed is continuous motion with no acceleration. 8. Gravity is the force that is keeping the asteroid in orbit around the sun. The force of gravity will pull the asteroid inward, but because the asteroid is constantly moving forward- it is sort of a constant state of perfectly balanced tug-of-war. 9. 1) Sun 2)Jupiter 3) Mars 4)Other Asteroids The reason for these rankings

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    In comparison to Earth, Pluto is about 39 times further away, and therefore, it takes Pluto 248 Earth years to complete one orbit (Landau, Pluto 19). Compared to Earth’s 24 hours in a day, “a day on Pluto lasts 153 hours, or about 6 Earth days” (“Solar System Exploration: Pluto: In Depth.”). Pluto is also only 1,400 miles wide, which is “about half the width of the United States, or 2/3 the width of Earth’s moon” (“Solar System Exploration: Pluto: In Depth.”). Since Pluto is less dense than Earth

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    they weren't sure how long it would be until it was finished. They had been working on project 206 which was a asteroid redirector for 17 years but only completed it about 73 % which could approximately push an asteroid that weighed about 23 tons . Now Dmuari and his crew are working on strengthening the director , which is project 206 . May 9th , 2038 12:13 am nasa picked up a asteroid that could possibly be heading earth's way , nasa immediately gives national crew heads up . Around 1 o’clock

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    The extinction of dinosaurs could have been caused by many different things. One main reason that is thought around the world is that dinosaurs went extinct because an asteroid fell onto earth at speeds that are too fast for the human mind to even imagine. This idea was thought when and asteroid crater was found near mexico. Also to support the facts many scientist found traces of rare metal onto the earth's surface. This metal is not very common here but is really common in outer space. Today we

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