More Space Facts - PlanetFacts.net Extremely Interesting Facts on the Planets, Stars and the Universe. If one were to capture and bottle a comet's 10,000 mile vapor trail, the amount of vapor actually present in the bottle would take up less than 1 cubic inch of space. Members of the Dogon tribe in Mali, Africa, for many centuries worshiped a star known today by astronomers as Sirius B. The Dogon people knew its precise elliptical orbit, knew how long it took to revolve around its parent star, Sirius, and were aware that it was made up of materials not found on Earth—all this centuries before modern astronomers had even discovered that Sirius B existed. Deimos, one of the moons of mars, rises and sets twice a day. To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky. Saturn's rings are 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick. Five times as many meteors can be seen after midnight as can be seen before. The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun.
Neil Armstrong American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012) Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. After he resigned from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati until 1979. He served on the Apollo 13 accident investigation and on the Rogers Commission, which investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In 2012, Armstrong died due to complications resulting from coronary bypass surgery, at the age of 82. Early life Armstrong was born near Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930, the son of Viola Louise (née Engel) and Stephen Koenig Armstrong. At age 17, in 1947, Armstrong began studying aeronautical engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Ensign Neil Armstrong on May 23, 1952 College years Test pilot Astronaut career Gemini program Legacy
Planets - Zoom Astronomy Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages.Click here to learn more. (Already a member? The Planets (plus the Dwarf Planet Pluto) Our solar system consists of the sun, eight planets, moons, many dwarf planets (or plutoids), an asteroid belt, comets, meteors, and others. The eight planets that orbit the sun are (in order from the sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Easy ways to remember the order of the planets (plus Pluto) are the mnemonics: "My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas" and "My Very Easy Method Just Simplifies Us Naming Planets" The first letter of each of these words represents a planet - in the correct order. The largest planet is Jupiter. The inner planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Generally, the farther from the Sun, the cooler the planet. Density of the Planets The Earth is the densest planet.
Sociology of space The sociology of space is a sub-discipline of sociology that examines the social and material constitution of spaces. It is concerned with understanding the social practices, institutional forces, and material complexity of how humans and spaces interact. The sociology of space is an inter-disciplinary area of study, drawing on various theoretical traditions including Marxism, postcolonialism, and Science and Technology Studies, and overlaps with various academic disciplines such as geography and architecture. Definition of space[edit] Space is one of most important concepts within the disciplines of social science as it is fundamental to our understanding of geography. In general terms,the Oxford English Dictionary defines space in two ways; 1. However, the human geographers’ interest is in the objects within the space and their relative position, which involves the description, explanation and prediction of the distribution of phenomena. History of the sociology of space[edit] 1. 2. 3.
SPACE Blogs: Here's Everything You Need to Know About the Season 3 Premiere of Orphan Black We’ve been patiently (okay, impatiently) waiting for this: news of the season three premiere of Orphan Black, set to air on Space, CTV, Bravo, and MTV at 9pm ET on April 18. We marked the date and time on our calendars. Some of us may have even set an alarm. (Not naming names or anything.) We’ve poured over the bits of information revealed by the show’s co-creator John Fawcett and we’ve watched "Calling All Clones" and the rest of the teaser clips that have come out over the last few weeks… more than once. What we’ve been wanting though, are some clues as to where the first new episode will go after the Clone Club left us with more than a few questions at the end of season two. Here’s what we’ve learned from the episode one synopsis that was just released: “In the season 3 premiere of Orphan Black, Sarah fights to locate a disappeared Helena, and must repel a lethal investigator from the mysterious shadow corporation Topside, who threatens the Leda sisters’ lives. Wow. Oh, Orphan Black.
How Orbits Work What an Orbit Really Is The drawings at the right simplify the physics of orbiting Earth. We see Earth with a huge, tall mountain rising from it. The mountain, as Isaac Newton first envisioned, has a cannon at the top. When the cannon is fired, the cannonball follows its ballistic arc, falling as a result of Earth's gravity, and it hits Earth some distance away from the mountain. If we put more gunpowder in the cannon, the next time it's fired, the cannonball goes halfway around the planet before it hits the ground. If you were riding along with the cannonball, you would feel as if you were falling. Getting Into Orbit The cannonball provides us with a pretty good analogy. Raise It Up (the mountain) to a high enough altitude so that Earth's atmosphere isn't going to slow it down too much. Apogee Kick How does a satellite get from low earth orbit (where the shuttle lets go of it) to geosynchronous orbit? Elliptical Orbits: most orbits are not perfectly circular. Gimme More! Questions
Top 10 Facts About Space Food Space may be the final frontier, but it is also one hell of a restaurant. Over the the past half-century, scientists and space engineers have not only been racing to get their rockets safely outside the Earth’s atmosphere, they’ve been working to ensure the menu keeps their astronauts coming back for more. While there have been all sorts of innovations and improvements, it seems now the options are better than ever, to where we might consider studying rocket science just to gain access to NASA’s kitchen. While these days it seems there is little hope in revisiting space any time soon, here are ten facts about space food, to give us food for thought as we wait until we can become weightless once more. Fact: Early Space Food Was Weird. When Yuri Gagarin become the first human being to go into outer space, he also become the first to eat and do whatever else a human must as a necessary condition of survival. Fact: Regular Foods are Eaten in Space Now. Fact: Jerky is Huge in Space.
Spatial theory, cultural geography, and the 'spatial turn' I'm currently working on various seminar papers, and the mood among many historians is that we need theory back in history. James Vernon made an impassioned plea for a return to theory in his plenary lecture for the 2011 Social History Society conference. Basically his message was 'what are we afraid of?' A focus on empiricism has meant we have lost sight of the big ideas, and the big frameworks that shape history. The SHS used to have a theory strand for its conference, but we dropped it a few years ago because the number of papers offered was in decline. I too have neglected theory for the past few years. Now historians seem to be taking the 'spatial turn'. So here's a quick cribsheet for the three modes of space, and a hint at where I fit. 1. 2. 3. So what lessons can we learn from spatial theory? Further reading: Don Mitchell, Cultural Geography: a Critical Introduction (Oxford: 2000); Beat Kümin, Political Space in Pre-industrial Europe (Adlershot, 2009)
Low Earth orbit A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers (99 mi), with an orbital period of about 88 minutes, and 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi), with an orbital period of about 127 minutes. Objects below approximately 160 kilometers (99 mi) will experience very rapid orbital decay and altitude loss.[1][2] With the exception of the manned lunar flights of the Apollo program, all human spaceflights have taken place in LEO (or were suborbital). The altitude record for a human spaceflight in LEO was Gemini 11 with an apogee of 1,374.1 kilometers (853.8 mi). All manned space stations to date, as well as the majority of artificial satellites, have been in LEO. Orbital characteristics[edit] Objects in LEO encounter atmospheric drag in the form of gases in the thermosphere (approximately 80–500 km up) or exosphere (approximately 500 km and up), depending on orbit height. Equatorial low Earth orbits (ELEO) are a subset of LEO. Use of LEO[edit] Examples[edit]
Top 10 Cool Facts about Space Space There is still so little known about outer space by modern science, but of that little we do know, there are some extraordinarily amazing things. This is a list of the top 10 cool facts about Space. 10. Fact: If you put Saturn in water it would float The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float. 9. Fact: We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second Our Galaxy – the Milky Way is spinning at a rate of 225 kilometers per second. 8. Fact: The moon is drifting away from Earth Every year the moon moves about 3.8cm further away from the Earth. 7. Fact: The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! 6. Fact: The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds 5. 4. 3. 2.
untitled Main Source: de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1984, 2002. See de Certeau's "Spatial Stories" in The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau argues that "space is a practiced place". It refers to the kinds of stories we tell about "where" "Stories thus carry out a labor that constantly transforms places into spaces or spaces into places." (118) Tours and Maps If we are trying to describe where we are, we might give a story which is like a map. A tour is different from a map in that it involves action. Marking Out Boundaries Stories also mark out boundaries. 1. And there are spaces of transgression. 2. Certeau quotes a poem: One time there was a picket fenceWith space to gaze from hence to thence.An architect who saw this sightApproached it suddenly one nightRemoved the spaces from the fenceAnd built of them a residenceThe senate had to interveneThe architect, however, flew What's the point? What counts as a frontier?
Orbits in Space Atmospheric Re-entry The Kepler formula also applies to elliptical motion, provided R is replaced by the semi-major axis a of the orbit. Over time however orbits stray from exact Keplerian ellipses because to additional forces, such as the attraction of the Moon and the Sun. Atmospheric friction also causes low-altitude satellites to re-enter, sooner or later: all these, as they lose energy, descend deeper and deeper into the atmosphere, and ultimately reach denser regions, where they burn up. Meanwhile the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle arrived, a more active peak than NASA had hoped for, bringing a greater intensity of solar x-rays and extreme ultra-violet radiation. The Bulge of the Earth If the Earth were a perfect sphere, orbit calculations could assume that all its mass was concentrated at its center: the force, at least outside the Earth, would have been exactly the same. That modifies the orbits of satellites and must be taken into account. Lagrangian Points
Milky Way Stars and gases at a wide range of distances from the Galactic center orbit at approximately 220 kilometers per second. The constant rotation speed contradicts the laws of Keplerian dynamics and suggests that much of the mass of the Milky Way does not emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation. This mass has been given the name “dark matter”.[22] The rotational period is about 240 million years at the position of the Sun.[9] The Galaxy as a whole is moving at a velocity of approximately 600 km per second with respect to extragalactic frames of reference. The oldest known star in the Galaxy is at least 13.6 billion years old and thus must have formed shortly after the Big Bang.[6] Surrounded by several smaller satellite galaxies, the Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which forms a subcomponent of the Virgo Supercluster. Appearance[edit] The Milky Way has a relatively low surface brightness. Size and mass[edit] Schematic illustration showing the galaxy in profile
Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers 2nd Global Conference Monday 16th May – Wednesday 18th May 2011 Warsaw, Poland The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Final Conference Programme Monday 16th May 2011 from 12.30 Registration 13.30Welcome and Opening Words Sorcha Ní Fhlainn 14.00Session 1: Love Will Keep Us Together…NOT! “No More America?” Love will Tear Us Apart … Again: The Endurance of the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth in Goth Subculture Kathryn Franklin Postmodern and Gothic Hybridity in Nick Cave’s “And the Ass Saw the Angel” Joanna Babicka 15:30 Tea 16:00Session 2: King and Company Chair: Victoria Amador Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism, and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King Kevin Corstorphine The Supernatural and the Functions of the Gothic in D. du Maurier’s The Birds and Don’t Look Now Nil Korkut-Nayki Tuesday 17th May 2011 09:00