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  Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
Ironically, the first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily.
Until the age of space travel, asteroids were merely pinpricks of light in even the largest telescopes and their shapes and terrain remained a mystery.
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 Asteroid pronunciation key - Wikipedia
This spelling pronunciation system is used on the planetoids and moons of the solar system pages.
The pronunciations indicated by the above system are literary, completely assimilated into English.
This may be because such words generally have alternate pronunciations where the e, i, or y is pronounced y, and the preceding syllable would therefore be open because it's penultimate: proh'-tews, or-thoh'-sya.
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 AllRefer.com - Vesta, in astronomy (Astronomy, General) - Encyclopedia
Its average distance from the sun is 2.36 astronomical units, and the period of its orbit is 1,325 days.
Vesta is the only asteroid that can be seen with the naked eye; it can be seen only when it is in the right position in the sky relative to the earth and sun, namely, when it is at opposition and perihelion simultaneously.
The crater is thought to have resulted from a collision with another celestial body, the impact tearing out large chunks of Vesta that formed a distinctive class of small asteroids, some of which have reached earth as meteorites.
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 Vesta, in astronomy
It is the third largest asteroid, with a diameter of c.326 mi (525 km).
Vesta is geologically different from the other large asteroids.
Alternatively, they all may have originated from the breakup of a large parent body early in the history of the solar system.
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 Asteroid - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1975, an asteroid taxonomic system based on colour, albedo, and spectral shape was developed by Clark R. Chapman, David Morrison, and Ben Zellner.
The first asteroid to be left unnamed was (3360) 1981 VA.
Ben Bova's novel series The Asteroid Wars (2001-2004) focuses on a war over the mining of the asteroid belt.
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 sciforums.com - pLuTo is a Planet or Satellite
And Pluto cannot be classified as a meteorite, by definition, unless it crashes into the earth and hits its surface.
The funny thing is, some asteroids have moons.
A nonluminous celestial body larger than an asteroid or comet, illuminated by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it revolves.
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 Starsplash: 06/01/2005 - 06/30/2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pronunciation: 'à r-gyà Function: verb Inflected Form(s): ar·gued; ar·gu·ing Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French arguer to accuse, reason & Latin arguere to demonstrate, prove; Middle French arguer, from Latin argutare to prate, frequentative of arguere; akin to Hittite arkuwai- to plead, respondDate: 14th centuryintransitive senses1 : to give reasons for or against something :
Before then, however, it is likely that mankind will have visited the asteroid and mined it away to nothing, because research indicates Amun is made from that primordial stainless steel.
According to this work, a 500-yard-diameter asteroid is predicted to generate a water crater nearly 3 miles in diameter
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 The Unofficial Opie and Anthony Message Board - Wackbag.com - New Planet
Asteroids: Early Solar System objects that never combined into a planet.
So a planet's not an asteroid, but an asteroid can be a planet, but just a minor one.
but now i'm learning small can mean small planet even though there are asteroids larger than it which also revolve around the sun.
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 Pirate4x4.Com Bulletin Board - Paz (or other space guys), I have a question
All the asteroids are in the same plane.
Explodes in space, the shock wave eminates from the middle of the thing, in an "expanding ring" effect.
Communication is the key to winning rock crawling competitions.
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 Slashdot | How Broad is Broadband?
The scientists and techies convinced everyone that a large asteroid would hit the Earth in a few years.
Since the marketeers and politicians were so important to the success of the new colony on a distant planet, they insisted that they should leave on the first ship so they could set up the economy and the government before everyone else arrived.
As soon as the first ship left, the techies announced that there was no asteroid and the Earth was now free of marketeers and politicains.
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 Creator Who Cares (Notes Chapter 6)
It's worth noting too that the earth is within a influence boundary by the sun that prevents too much gamma radiation from space from bombarding the planet.
He was also key to establishing the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas.
To get an idea of how difficult it would be for Moses to have gotten the sequential order of the creative process, as well as the geological sediment record correct, try this mental experiment.
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 Study: Dinos died within hours of impact - News and Siteseeing
A new report in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of shows that many land-based organims perished within 'minutes to hours' of the impact of the 6-mile-wide asteroid in Mexico.
It was previously thought (in another theory) that the dinosaurs died within months or years as the earth became inhospitable after the impact in Chicxulub made the sky dark with ash.
Using estimates based on existing research, the five researchers calculated that the energy released by the asteroid strike was equivalent to that in 100 million megatons of TNT.
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 Ejnar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He discovered two asteroids, one of which is the Amor asteroid 1627 Ivar.
The asteroid 1693 Hertzsprung is named in his honour.
Ejnar Hertzsprung[I'nAr herts'sprOOng] Pronunciation Key, 1873–1967, Danish astronomer...
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 Gamingforce Interactive Forums - From a friend:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I have read and studied Nietzsche for quite some time and anyone who has discussed his works knows how tedious it is to sort out what he meant in his texts.
You know, interpretation being a key point in philosophy and whatnot.
Of course, the moon's gravitational power is only 1/6 the strength of the earth's, so it's not that long of a guess to assume that plenty of dust has been blown off during impacts with asteroids since escape velocity is hardly a fraction of the earth's.
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 TribalWar Forums - The Origins of Life - A Big Ball of Sugar
A confection made from a sugar or honey paste into which nuts are mixed.
2 was basically a panic propaganda talking about how we could get wiped by an asteroid, Ep.3 now talks about how screwed we'd be if a fl hole were near us.
It's just funny, I guess I understand that hard science alone wouldn't sell well but it would be plenty for me.
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 Pallas, in astronomy
It was found in 1802 by H. Olbers.
The second largest asteroid, it has a diameter of c.300 mi (480 km).
Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 2.78
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 Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Forums >> Open Discussion >> The trash illegals leave behind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I'm not obligated to welcome into my country millions of dumbass Mexicans who had too many kids and now can't bother to educate themselves and reform their country; and who instead, choose to come here and degrade mine.
de·grade Audio pronunciation of "degrade" (P) Pronunciation Key (d-grd)
To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
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 Kiang
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A minor asteroid with an orbit lying between those of Mars and Jupiter, some 300,000,000 miles from the Sun.
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