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Thomas Kern ESS102 Research Paper Space Debris in Low Earth Orbit An unfortunate consequence of man exploring off planet has been the steady growth of junk from derelict and unused spacecraft. According to NASA there are over half a million pieces of junk in low earth orbit. Because these pieces of junk travel at orbital speeds of around 17,500 miles per hour, they posses tremendous amounts of energy and are capable of doing substantial damage (NASA). Most of the dangerous hard to track debris

Physics behind changes in planetary orbit April 07,2014 “Oh no, a small field of asteroid the size of Pluto is heading towards Earth on a direct collision course!” The Earth and all of its inhabitants are now facing certain extinction. What are the Earth’s inhabitants to do? Is it possible to move the planet out of the way in time? Fortunately for humanity, there are many ways to actually change the Earth’s orbit both plausible and unrealistic, but one must completely understand the physics

Commercializing Low Earth Orbit Relevance to the Science fiction article. My chose to complete my Sci-fi paper as a collection of journal entries from a business man who has to travel to a meeting on the moon. The journals each speak of a different leg of his journey, from the journey up, the accommodations, the meeting, and the return flight. His company deals with satellite orbit altitude rights, and must cooperate with a company based on the moon, who has its own satellites orbiting the moon

circling a larger thing. The complete path it follows is called an orbit. The moon is a example of a natural satellite of the earth. Manmade, or artificial satellites are placed into orbit by rockets or space shuttles. After World War II, the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in 1951, into space. In 1958, the United States launched its first artificial satellite Telstar I into orbit. Since then, many more satellites were made by different countries

Leaving the Orbit but Entering Knowledge When I was a child, I used to think that the idea of space travel was out of this world, some parts of myself still do. I’ve always believed that astronauts had a job more fascinating than anyone else, to have the luxury of being a part of one of the most spectacular feats in the world. It was a luxury not just given to them, but obtained through years of exhausting, strenuous work. I’m very proud, to this day, to be a citizen of the country that put the

the slider all the way to accurate, click on the tape measure and the grid. 2. Click the radio button for 4 objects and run the simulation until the purple planet (body 2) has made one complete orbit (one year). 3. After the first orbit (year), turn off the traces (show traces box) and watch another orbit (year) of the purple planet (body 2). Question One: Is blue moon (body 3) circling the yellow sun (body 1) or the purple planet (body 2)? Explain your answer. Using the trojan asteroids setting

Wei Jiang ESS 102 Instructor: Erika Harnett November 18, 2016 Manned Mission to Mars The year is 2045, a time when the earth is in great turmoil. Tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, famines… all the impacts of global warming are just starting to disrupt life. Europe and North America are experiencing immigration in unprecedented numbers, neither because the migrants are escaping persecution, conflicts and wars in their countries, nor because they are pursuing economic prospects; but because

circular orbits (“Johan Kepler” 1). During this time period, Ptolemy’s geocentric theory of the solar system was accepted. Ptolemy’s theory stated that Earth is at the center of the universe and stationary; closest to Earth is the Moon, and beyond it, expanding towards the outside, are Mercury, Venus, and the Sun in a straight line, followed by Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the “fixed stars”. The Ptolemaic system explained the numerous observed motions of the planets as having small spherical orbits called

One Mercury year is only about 88 days on Earth. A powerful feature of Mercury is its orbit it is one of the fastest orbiting planets compared the rest in our solar system. Out of all the planets orbits, Mercury’s orbit is the least circular. Mercury’s orbit is not circular because Mercury’s the closet orbital distance to the Sun rather than being larger when contrasted with that of the other planets it is wider. Along

in the orbit. It stays on the orbit and circled round the sun. The days it takes for one circle of the Earth’s orbit is one year and move circled around. Our daily life can be break down as day and night. The difference between it is the sun. During the day, we have sunshine but not at the night. It is a rotate of the daily life. It will never change, there will not be one day is without sunshine. In some ways, the universal gravitation, and the principles of the planets stay in the orbit around