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  Mercury (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mercury ranges from −0.4 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, and its greatest angular separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is only 28.3°, meaning it is only ever seen in twilight.
Mercury's composition is approximately 70% metallic and 30% silicate.
Mercury's axial tilt is only 0.01 degrees, which is over 300 times smaller than that of Jupiter, which is the second smallest axial tilt of all planets at 3.1 degrees.
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 Mercury (planet)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mercury ranges from –0.4 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude; Mercury is sufficiently "close" to the Sun that telescopes rarely examine it.
Mercury was called Mercury when in the evening sky, but was known as Apollo—in honor of the Roman god of the Sun when it appeared in the morning.
The atoms that compose Mercury's atmosphere are continually being lost to space, with the average "lifespan" of a potassium or sodium atom being approximately ~3 hours (during the Mercurian day—and only half that at perihelion).
www.ceca.de /encyclopedia/m/me/mercury__planet__1.html   (1738 words)

  
 Mercury (planet)
Mercury ranges from −0.4 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude; Mercury is sufficiently "close" to the Sun that telescopes rarely examine it (the greatest elongation is 28.3°).
The mean surface temperature of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature on Earth varies by only about 11 K (with respect only to solar radiation; not climate or season).
One theory suggests that Mercury originally had a metal-silicate ratio similar to common chondrite meteors and a mass approximately 2.25 times its current mass, but that early in the solar system's history Mercury was struck by a planetesimal of approximately 1/6 that mass.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mercury_%28planet%29   (2710 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of mountains on Mercury
There is a separate List of craters on Mercury.
Mercurian ridges are called dorsa, and are named after astronomers who made detailed studies of the planet.
Mercury is a god, also known as the god of trade, profit and commerce.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-mountains-on-Mercury   (979 words)

  
 Luminaire having a reflector containing asymmetrical ridges for distributing light output asymmetrically - Patent ...
The individual ridges that are located in predetermined sectors of the inner surface each have one of its two facets disposed at a much smaller angle with respect to its reference line than the other of the two facets so that this ridge is highly bilaterally asymmetrical with respect to said reference line.
It will be apparent from the table that for the ridges located in certain sectors of the reflector, the angle E is much greater than the angle F. This is the case, as indicated in the table, in those sectors extending for 70 degrees on either sides of the transverse reference plane 65.
Because of this bilaterally asymmetrical configuration of the individual ridges, the light reflected from the ridges 122 through the bottom opening of the reflector has a photometric distribution which is asymmetrical with respect to the central axis of the reflector.
www.freepatentsonline.com /5014175.html   (4549 words)

  
 Mercury (planet)
A crater at the North pole or South pole of Mercury may be one of the best off-Earth locations for a colony as the temperature is a constant minus 200 degrees c or there abouts.
This is because Mercury has zero axial tilt and esentially no atmosphere to carry heat from the sunlit portion of Mercury.
The large iron core of Mercury will protect the colonists from a nearby super nova in almost half of the possible directions.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mercury__planet__1   (1662 words)

  
 Mercury MA-8
At Mercury Control the suit heat signal, creeping steadily upward, had indeed caused the ground controllers to think about terminating the mission after the first circuit.
Mercury Control had alerted the ground stations to pay particular attention to fuel usage by the thrusters.
All was well, and so far as this test pilot could judge, the Mercury spacecraft "had gone to the top of the list," even over the F8F aircraft he liked so well.
www.astronautix.com /flights/merryma8.htm   (8999 words)

  
 List of geological features on Mercury -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
There is a separate (Click link for more info and facts about List of craters on Mercury) List of craters on Mercury.
Mercurian ridges are called (Click link for more info and facts about dorsa) dorsa, and are named after (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomers who made detailed studies of the planet.
Mercurian (A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion) scarps are called (Click link for more info and facts about rupes) rupes and are named after the ships of famous (Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)) explorers.
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 Mercury - Astronomy and Planet Facts @ sharetheplanet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mercury ranges from -0.4 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude; Mercury is sufficiently "close" to the Sun that telescopes rarely examine it.
Mercury starts out with approximately twice its current mass in this theory; but, as the protostar contracted, temperatures near Mercury could have been between 2500-3500K; and possibly even as high as 10000K.
A mission to Mercury has been approved by NASA, named MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging), which is planned to launch in June 2004 and reach Mercury in March 2011.
www.sharetheplanet.com /picmo_457_dir_pag6657_2302457_1.html   (1478 words)

  
 ATOMIC THEORY List of Historical Contributors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
A great deal of the Scientific Method as it might be related to the Theory of Atomism has its history in the sciences of chemistry and physics which, in many ways, are one and the same 'subject' [namely, the study of what the universe is made of and what holds it all together.].
It is a list of pioneers, discoverers and inventors with a few parallel achievements and a few relevant non-chemist/physicist historical figures added.
It is a skull with dominant supra-orbital-frontal crests (heavy eyebrow ridges) and seems both "simian" and human.
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 CHAPTER 5: PLANETARY GEOLOGY: Manual of Remote Sensing
Tectonic forces have produced intricate patterns of ridges and fractures on the surface, and a period of widespread early deformation may have led to the development of the elevated tessera plateaus.
The ridge and slump morphology of the inner caldera is similar to that seen in the calderas of many terrestrial shield volcanoes.
The bright crater Kuiper near the center of the image (60 km diameter) is one of the largest young craters on Mercury and defines the Kuiperian stratigraphic unit, analogous to the Copernican unit on the Moon.
marswatch.tn.cornell.edu /rsm.html   (18132 words)

  
 August 1998 - USGS Monthly List of Publications
Alphabetical listings reflecting the first phase of data compilation (information obtained only from large-scale topographic maps) are available for the following States and territories as bound listings and on magnetic tape.
Mercury in ground water, soils, and sediments of the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system in the New Jersey coastal plain, by J. Barringer, C. MacLeod and R. Gallagher.
Geochemistry of oceanic igneous rocks; ridges, islands, and arcs; with emphasis on manganese, scandium, and vanadium.
pubs.usgs.gov /publications/1998-08/August.shtml   (13004 words)

  
 Orientation film of liquid crystal having bilaterally asymmetric ridges separated by grooves - Patent 5438421
The orientation may be formed by using a first mold having one of the patterns, and a second mold with a second pattern, or first and second holographic exposed layers.
wherein said orientation film is entirely defined by said plurality of ridges and associated grooves such that all surfaces of the orientation film are curved with respect to said planar substrate.
As in Example 7, onto a substrate body 32 with electrode 31 is spin-coated with a positive-type photosensitive resin (Cypray Ltd. Co., AZ 1350J) to a thickness of 0.2.mu.m, to form film 33 comprising photosensitive resin.
www.freepatentsonline.com /5438421.html   (14971 words)

  
 Mercury News | 03/05/2004 | Sea ice wrecks Arctic station
Russia's first effort since the breakup of the Soviet Union to maintain a year-round presence on the sea ice near the North Pole was cut short Thursday after wind-driven ice floes rose into three-story ridges, destroying most of a drifting research camp, Russian scientists and officials said.
The dozen oceanographers, engineers, meteorologists and other staff members who have lived at the camp since April were not in immediate danger, government officials told Russian news services, but government agencies and Arctic experts scrambled to organize helicopter flights to retrieve them.
Ice ridges and cracks are commonplace in a region where knitted floes typically drift hundreds of yards an hour and constantly collide like tight-packed bumper cars.
www.buzztracker.org /2004/03/05/cache/96305.html   (729 words)

  
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Environment Canada estimates that 2/3 of the mercury found in municipal sewage sludge is from dental clinics.
In its 2001 soil benefits study, Atlantic listed 129 properties totalling almost 12,000 acres in Durham that are licensed by the MOE to receive paper biosolids.
Protect the Ridges was formed two years ago due to residents' concerns about stockpiles of paper sludge on several sites in north Oshawa and Clarington, its use in the production of SoundSorb (a mixture of sludge and sand) and the use of SoundSorb in a berm at a nearby gun club.
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 Mars
Much of the Martian surface is very old and cratered, but there are also much younger rift valleys, ridges, hills and plains.
Like Mercury and the Moon, Mars appears to lack active plate tectonics at present; there is no evidence of recent horizontal motion of the surface such as the folded mountains so common on Earth.
Mars remains at the top of the list of possible life-bearing planets.
www.nineplanets.org /mars.html   (2223 words)

  
 AGU Home Page: List of Index Terms. 2005 Revision
These new terms must be used for all submissions to AGU after 1 December 2004.
You may view a comparative mapping of previous terms to 2005 revised list of Index Terms that clearly indicates new terms, revised or unchanged terms and cross-referenced terms.
Cross-references are listed in parentheses and indicate other relevant terms.
www.agu.org /pubs/gaplist.html   (124 words)

  
 Health:Category Top/Health/Nursing/Organizations/North America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Expand listIndiasee Indian Trade Unions, List of trade unions in the Singareni coal fields.IraqFederation of Workersý Councils and Unions in IraqIraqi Federation of Trade UnionsUnion of the Unemployed in IraqIreland Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) (www.ictu.ie) Note: ICTU is the umbrella organisation for unions operating in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Valid indexes are in the range 1 through the number of elements in the list.
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 ASP Project List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Three main waterbodies in the area, the Alamo and New Rivers and the Salton Sea, are listed on the State's 303 (d) list of impaired waterbodies for various pollutants.
The mission of the BIOS Program is to build a community of farmers, other agricultural professionals, and public institutions dedicated to the voluntary adoption of a whole systems approach to farm management that is flexible, maintain's long-term profitablity, and relies less on chemical inputs.
The purpose of this study was to formulate a prioritized list of sediment management procedures for the Buena Vista watershed and lagoon based on a cost-benefit comparison.
endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu /wpi/projectlist.asp   (8783 words)

  
 1-ACCREATION Theory
A key discovery in developing this new Accreation Theory came in 1987 from listing most of the larger known bodies in the Solar System by size.
Earth’s atmosphere gradually increases in density and thickness with the passage of time and causes greater ablation of all meteors, creating more dust particles and reducing the sizes of impacting meteorites.
via volcanoes and midocean ridges creates new continental crust and oceanic seafloor that increases the planet’s total surface area and diameter.
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 Rough Surfaces on Glass, stipled, crackled, or frosted?
Above: Spanish style jug in blue crackle glass, with ridges so sharp they can cut you.
Above: The crackle pattern on this blue vase can be felt as a lumpy surface but they are not sharp as they have been melted into the surface by re-heating.
The Glass Encyclopedia has several recent new pages; and the Glass Museum has some really beautiful items for sale, so please continue to keep an eye on our auctions and support us if you can.
www.glass.co.nz /roughsurfaces.htm   (1334 words)

  
 Coins and Numismatic Page of sammler.com
In it were several German coins, and a couple of them seem to be rarer than the others according to a coin catalog I found.
The side that has the dime on it, has the ridges on the rim, and the penny side is smooth along the rim.
I have a coin that is a mercury dime on the front and a wheat penny on the back.
www.sammler.com /coins   (6186 words)

  
 Publications
Friedli, H.R., L.F. Radke, and J.Y. Lu, 2001: Mercury in smoke from biomass fires.
In Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics, IUTAM Symposium and NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Zakopane, K. Bajer and K. Moffatt, Eds., Kluwer.
List, 2001: Nowcasting hurricane properties by Principal Component Analysis of Dopper velocity data.
www.asp.ucar.edu /asr2001/publications.htm   (1315 words)

  
 THE TRUE HEALING ART: Trall
He had been led to notice, for many years, that patients who were treated with the ordinary remedies--bleeding, mercury, and antimony--presented certain complications which always aggravated the malady, and rendered convalescence more lingering and recovery less complete.
After this the disease assumed many complications, as well it might, for which a promiscuous medley of medicaments were prescribed for two years longer, among which was hellebore, irritating plasters, several kinds of pills, and a variety of homeopathic pellets and placebos.
The mercury induced chronic inflammation of the duodenum--mercurial duodenitis --for which antimony and opium were administered.
www.soilandhealth.org /02/0201hyglibcat/020120trall.html   (17783 words)

  
 Onibasu.com :: [Autism-Mercury] Re: I: Questons on Craniosacral therapy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The bones in the head should be smooth and not bumpy with ridges.
If your child had alot of bumps and ridges it very well could be an indicator that he needs this therapy.
To search multiple mailing lists, use the search tool on the home page.
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 Jupiter Image Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
This is an image of Europan ridges taken by the Galileo spacecraft.
This image compares a Europan fault with the San Andreas fault in California.
An image of Jupiter's aurora taken by the Galileo spacecraft.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/jupiter/jupiter_il.html   (1655 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
Dune ridges in its interior rise to elevations of about 100 m (about 330 ft).
Tungsten is found mainly in the highlands N of the Xi Jiang, and the largest antimony deposits are in Hunan.
China also holds abundant reserves of magnesite, molybdenum, mercury, and manganese.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/china.html   (6553 words)

  
 Early Figural Glass Christmas Ornaments - Fish, Tree, Quilted Ball - 2567
The fish is extremely delicate, with his original mercury silvering having faded to transparency.
The quilted gold mercury glass ball is 1-7/8" diameter.
Like the other two, the mercury has a semi-transparency that allows light to shine through beautifully.
www.rubylane.com /shops/coppertonlane/item/2567   (224 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of plains on Mercury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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 Sierra Club Hike List · Santa Barbara Hikes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
August 13 - MISSION RIDGE: Hike from Tunnel Trail up to near the Rattlesnake Connector and then up a primitive trail to the top of a ridge.
Sat November 19 - MISSION RIDGE: Hike from Rattlesnake Canyon, up the connector trail to Tunnel Trail and then up a primitive trail to the top of a ridge.
We will take a side trail to the ridge, stopping for lunch at a high point with a fabulous view.
www.santabarbarahikes.com /sierraclub/listing.shtml   (3253 words)

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