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miles in diameter(Coffey). Within and on the earth itself, there are still great mysteries, and so it comes as no surprise that a giant area such as space holds so much mystery. One of the most recent fascinations to astronomers has been asteroids, meteors, meteorites, and comets. These space rocks are found

The Three Major Theories Explaining the Extinction of the Dinosaurs There are many theories explaining the extinction of the dinosaur. The Most probable theories are: a massive meteor hit the earth causing the extinction. B. A chain of volcano’s erupted and caused acid rain, shortage of sunlight and any other number of atmospheric problems that brought about the extinction of dinosaurs. C. Rapid Climate Change in a short period of time would have brought the dinosaurs to extinction because of an

Scientist detects that a meteor will hit earth soon. The scientist also stated that the meteor will catch fire entering the earth atmosphere since its coming in so fast. If this is true Earth will be polluted by the meteor and the greenhouse effect will damage Earth even more (Boyce). If a meteor hits the Earth then it could wipe out the human race. Since us humans are putting trash in the ocean it can affect

dents. Those dents, being craters. Craters are formed when a meteor or an asteroid hits the surface and it explodes leaving a crater or dent on the planet's crust. Over the years, craters tend to lose its shape. You can tell if it is a crater or not. After a asteroid or meteor hits the surface and explodes, it leaves dust particles of what the asteroid or meteor is made up of. Take a sample and test the dust to see if it was an asteroid, meteor, or just a dent in the crust. The largest crater on mars

65 million years ago dinosaurs were wiped out from the land. They ruled the land for 165 million years. What happened to 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

“Would it be possible for us to stop it?” Asir asked. Zilva shook her head. “We could but there are other large meteors in the area. The impact of our firing could fling those rocks to the planet as well.” “Calculate time to impact and all possible devastation scenarios. The hit could easily render that planet useless and I don’t want to waste my time if that is the

blinding like a blinding light. As the “Grave men’s” natural eyes are blind, they “blaze like meteors.” This is metaphorical sight, seeing something they have not seen before. Having been solemn most of their lives, at the end they find joy and cheerfulness. Just as a meteor can light up even the darkest night sky, this sense of happiness is lighting up the darkest season in their lives. Once a meteor catches on fire, it will not last much longer. So also these men understand they will not be much

about 90 teeth. They used these teeth to prey on fish, the main source of food in their diet.” That could mean that pterodactyls has a reason to hang out by the sea, to catch some fish I strongly believe that the pterodactyls were affected by the meteor because in the many articles I put/researched here they also said one major thing pterodactyls were very keen to the ground or muddy, swampy

Jessica Koch AP Lit Ms. Gelder 24 August 2015 The Scarlet Letter Everything is a symbol. A symbol is defined by every reader. Symbolism is not universal and if it is, it is not a symbol; rather it is an allegory. It is up for interpretation from the reader and with their personal views and examples from the text, it becomes a symbol in a work of literature. Symbols, “wait somewhere deeper and part of what it requires of us is to bring something of ourselves to the encounter”(Foster 100). The Scarlet

“Evolution”, is an entertaining film about an alien species being introduced to earth via meteor. However, this film seems to contain a copious amount scientific inaccuracies. For example, when the meteor is traveling through space, the movie presents the meteor rushing towards Earth with sound. However, space is a vacuum, so there for there would be no sound in space. To continue with the lengthy list, the meteor, after piercing the atmosphere of earth, still remains around the same size, not withering