Look out!  These can fly around the nucleus at over 4 million MPH!
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NASA's Venerable Comet Hunter Wraps up Mission | NASA  Mar 24, 2011 ... At __ minutes after 4 p.m. PDT today, NASA's Stardust spacecraft finished its ... halfway out to Jupiter to collect particle samples from the coma of a comet, ... Because the nucleus is so small, these jets act like rocket engines, spinning up the comet's rotation. .... 3-4, 2016, at nearly 1.3 million miles per hour.
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Frequently asked questions / Rosetta / Space Science / Our ...  ESA's Rosetta mission will allow scientists to unlock the mysteries of the ... The comet's composition reflects the composition of the pre-solar nebula out of ... It will also be the first mission to investigate a comet's nucleus and environment over an ...... temperatures of asteroids visited by Rosetta and to search for gas around...
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motion and time - Education and Public Outreach group at Sonoma ...  Jan 2, 2012 ... Yeah, it's been traveling for over 30 years now, Rhonda adds. ... For example, Earth is about 150 million kilometers from the Sun ... around the Sun one time. ... to have a speed of 60 miles per hour (mph) if it will travel a distance of 60 ..... and they would have to fly past before we would see the Sun go out.
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Solar Storm and Space Weather - Frequently Asked Questions | NASA  Apr 26, 2016 ... Search NASA.gov ... Who is responsible for predicting space weather and sending alerts ... that can be accelerated to several million miles per hour in a spectacular explosion. ... The rotation of these sunspots can be seen on the solar surface; they take .... Today, airlines fly over 7,500 polar routes per year.
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Chapter 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  Electrons zip around the nucleus at about 5 million miles per hour. Why don't some fly off? .... What can some microbes change in their environment? .... What carries instructions for synthesizing RNA and proteins and controls synthesis of all molecules in an organism? ... It looks like your browser might be zoomed in or out.
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Sc1ence Part 3 Flashcards | Quizlet  SCIENCE & NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): These theorized subatomic particles take their name from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". quarks.
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BBC - Earth - There are weird bursts of energy coming from deep ...  Jun 7, 2016 ... These bright bursts of radio waves shine for only a few milliseconds. ... Even if fast radio bursts turn out to be more mundane, they still could be important. These radio signals are like lasers that shoot across the Universe, ... called a quasar produces prodigious amounts of energy, including radio waves.
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This question originally aired on February 22,... | Jeopardy ...  ... Category: REACH FOR THE STARS Question: A super one of these hurls debris through space at over 40 million MPH & then can form a nebula Answer:...
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A birds-eye view of the bird scorching Ivanpah solar electric power ...  Aug 18, 2014 ... I can tell you that not only does it roast birds in mid-air, it certainly seems to be a hazard to aviation. ... Driving on Interstate 15 I have seen the Ivanpah Solar Power plant .... about 11 mph instead of the usual cut-in speed of about 7 mph. ..... But even without these technologies, solar is still a conditional win...
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Advances in the Production and Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements ...  Feb 13, 2013 ... Is there an eighth period and how many elements will it contain? ..... the discovery of elements 101111 was published by Greenwood. ..... (121) Figure 10 shows the relativistic contraction of the 7s atomic orbital ..... To allow the highest beam intensities, highly efficient target cooling is ...... A 1991, 309, 201.
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Your Horoscope This Week - Yahoo  12 hours ago ... When it comes to your costume, the vibe is definitely sci-fi this year. ... Show and prove what you can do on a small, independent scale. ... Rewind and be kind. ... in seductive Scorpio this Monday, the sultry celebrations keep on going. ..... At 67, John Force Goes Nearly 332 mph, a New Track Record.
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Mysterious Mercury: Probe reveals magnetic twisters and mammoth ...  May 5, 2009 ... Experts said it showed evidence of concentrated volcanic and ... its magnetic field appears to be actively generated in a molten iron core. ... Researchers reveal how the magic eye illusions work - and why not ... cosying up to him at her birthday pool party Is she having a fling? .... 'They really dig each other!
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Jeopary Questions page 1288 - DOUBLE LETTERS - TriviaBistro.com  AFRICAN WILDLIFE: It can attain a speed of about 40 mph, but has only 2 toes on each of its 2 feet  YOU CAN ... ACTRESSES: This "Green Card" star's Southern accent was so strong in "Greystoke" that Glenn Close had to dub her voice.
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J! Archive - Show #5500, aired 2008-07-04  Jul 4, 2008 ... Nidhogg, one of these mythical fire-breathers, gnaws at the roots of the cosmic tree .... Pauling found an "alpha" type of this spiral in proteins; Watson & Crick found a "double" one in DNA...
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Science Buddies Blog: Science Fair Project Ideas Archives  Get hands-on this summer with bug, worm, or flying insect science! ... Summer bird watching projects may help build and reinforce important science .... Make paper rockets you can launch by blowing through a straw and experiment to find out ... With needle, conductive thread, LEDs, and a power source, you can transform...
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Conversations with Fireflies - NSTA News  Sep 28, 2004 ... He also knew that females of the same species respond with a flash ... of their own from their perches in the grass, thus alerting males to their ... Two Weeks Later ... a Photuris female in a P. pyralis site by her flash, given 2.2 seconds ... complex consists of two short pulses separated by about 2 seconds.
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Long-sought subatomic particle 'seen' at last | Science News for ...  Aug 12, 2015 ... The discovery of a new massless subatomic particle could help ... Physicists found them inside a material made of the elements tantalum and arsenic. ... But shortly after that time, scientists proposed two more types of fermions. ... resists speeding up and slowing down  basically a measure of how much...
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COLLOQUIUM: Flight of the Fruit Fly | Princeton Plasma Physics Lab  Oct 19, 2016 ... After watching such a magnificent display, who among us could destroy this virtuoso? How do flies produce acrobatic maneuvers with such...
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Look Ma!! It's a Dimpled Paintball!!! - Automags.Org Online Forums  They are way to big (out of proportion to a golf ball dimples) ... has anyone actually seen these fly? ... I believe it was supposed to increase range, on a flight. .... Long story short typical paintball spin has little to do with paintball accuracy. ... the dimples might reduce drag a bit allowing for a longer distance.
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jeopardy/2176_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Value: $100. Number: 26. SCI-"FI" | The splitting of a heavy nucleus -- it sounds like where Fermi has "gone" on vacation | fission. right: Jeff. Wrong: Value: $200.
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History Magnets where first discovered by the Romans more than ...  "Nuclear" as only the nuclei of certain atoms reacted in that way; ... Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)uses the signal from the nuclei of hydrogen atoms (1H) for ... This means that the proton rotates about its axis like a spinning top. ... The process of energy absorption is known as excitation of the spin system and results in...