Astronomy & Space - July 2006

2006-07-20 07:48:58 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2

2006-07-20 07:12:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-20 07:10:28 · 16 answers · asked by Mohsen 1

2006-07-20 06:36:24 · 15 answers · asked by Andy LW 1

2006-07-20 06:14:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

The cartesian heliocentric ecliptic coordinates for an orbit's aphelion are:
x = +0.5877971
y = -2.098983
z = -0.008080998

The unit vector normal to the orbit is:
Xn = -0.0004498044
Yn = -0.003975890
Zn = +0.9999920

The orbit's semimajor axis:
a = 1.319533

Distances are in astronomical units.

2006-07-20 05:38:34 · 3 answers · asked by David S 5

Aside from the fact that 365 days is how long the earth takes to make a full orbit around the sun, why is it considered a year? Is there any significance to 365? Why not just say 100 days is a year?

2006-07-20 05:22:14 · 12 answers · asked by vintagex50s 2

I want factual evidence

2006-07-20 05:09:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I`ve personally never come across objects moving at constant speed.With forces of gravity acting everywhere,i do not see where this theory would apply in reality.Please help.Genuine answers please?Thanks.

2006-07-20 05:04:21 · 12 answers · asked by mamanoelia 3

I heard an iteresting option that was, in OUR own history, anyone who travels great distances to a new land does so to reap the spoils of that journey.

2006-07-20 04:57:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

This has perplexed me as to what the baby would be classed as, alien or human. I know the genetic structure will not change to something like ET and would remain human, but is the baby classed as alien?

2006-07-20 04:57:05 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think in the future that the human race will be forced to live on other planets because of the condition of Earth?

2006-07-20 04:44:19 · 11 answers · asked by Video Pod 2

2006-07-20 04:42:45 · 6 answers · asked by Mobidus Lee 3

2006-07-20 04:14:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Compute the gravitational force between the sun (M = 1.99 x 10^30 kg) and the planet Uranus(m = 14.5Me, obital radius r = 19.2 AU).

a. 1.39 x 10^21 N
b. 1.39 x 10-21 N
c. 13.9 x 10^21 N
d. 139 N

2006-07-20 04:11:10 · 2 answers · asked by Lou 1

Has anyone ever thought that perhaps the reason we've come to a drag in space travel technology is possibly b/c at this point we really have no where to go? I mean we have yet to discover another earthlike planet where life could exist. My question is...if suddenly we spotted an "Earth 2" (for lack of a better term) do you think technology would suddenly ramp up to try to get there? Keep in mind people generally are more productive with a desireable goal in sight...?

2006-07-20 03:55:22 · 16 answers · asked by Dustin S 2

2006-07-20 03:39:30 · 22 answers · asked by decaying_apple 1

ARMSTRONG, Neil Alden arrive at the moon in which year?

2006-07-20 03:14:51 · 8 answers · asked by small 1

How powerful would a telescope have to be to do me any good? In terms of getting a cheaper one to just get started. Any info would be appreciated .

2006-07-20 03:12:28 · 6 answers · asked by platostime 1

i asked this yesterday, if a black hole mass rotates then the planets spiralling into it should have a gradual increase in acceleration toward it. since we can measure velocity and light spectra this should be ascertainable.
at the bottom of the black hole it would rotate the fastest, as you move away the rotation of the spiral should be correlatable to the bottom based on the mass of the body. am i totally off base or what?

2006-07-20 03:09:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i observed moon through a telescope in my school,but there wasnt any USA flag there that they say they dug there when they visited moon.so is it a lie on which we believe that astronauts have actually visited moon?think about it!!

2006-07-20 02:59:10 · 14 answers · asked by star9 1

2006-07-20 02:52:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean, if you are China, it makes sense. Afterall, you didn't accomplish this in 1969. America did. But if you are America, why go back to the moon? What new engineering feats will be profitably conquered? Is the pricetag worth it? Why not just shoot straight for Mars, a place we have not yet sent humans to?

2006-07-20 01:21:28 · 23 answers · asked by myanswer418 2

2006-07-20 01:05:42 · 18 answers · asked by RaDzy 1

I completed Engineering in Electronics and Communicatios and i want to do specialization in aerospacial technologies.So i want to know the information regarding the universities and courses offered by them.How to apply to those universities?I was interested to do MS in US.So can you list the universiies which offer those courses.

2006-07-20 00:25:48 · 4 answers · asked by deepthi p 1

Bearing in mind that, in historical terms, it is only a short time ago that the most intelligent scientific minds firmly believed that the Universe revolved around the Earth. Also that the deciphering of the Human Genome was the final definitive step in human science – but has now been show to be just another skin of the onion.
It is not long ago that Science was investigating entropy and predicting the Heat Death of the Universe, That soon glaciers could be expected to advance over Regents Park London.
Recently Medical Science predicted that --- using antibiotics -- Gonorrhoea, Tuberculosis and many other plagues would be erased forever. Dr Ken Harvey, director of. Microbiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia, where a particularly virulent strain of MRSA bacteria swept through the wards, said recently: 'We may, look back at the antibiotic era as just a passing. phase in the history of medicine, an era in which a great, natural resource was squandered and where the bugs proved smarter than the scientists. He is especially critical of 'doctors who constantly use broad-spectrum antibiotics an indiscriminate drug which kills a wide range of bugs in circumstances where they are unnecessary. " Broad spectrum, antibiotics are the refuge of the diagnostically 'destitute". he said.
Vaccination was to protect the young --- but has now been shown to be responsible for many types of Autism --- due to the Mercury included in many vaccines. A parent who said he believes his two autistic children were harmed by vaccines applauded Congress for requesting a new investigation. The parent, Jared Hansen of Framingham, said he thinks the CDC is reluctant to expose dangers of thimerosal because the agency is responsible for ensuring public acceptance of its vaccination program.

"They've proven far more willing to overstate the risks of disease and understate the danger of vaccination," Hansen said. "No one in their right mind can say that giving mercury intravenously is a smart thing to do."

Autism rates soared during the 1990s when thimerosal was most heavily used in childhood vaccines. Levels of mercury injected into infants were 120 times greater than federal safety limits for oral ingestion of mercury, congressmen wrote to the NIEHS.

Government officials asked manufacturers in 1999 to remove the mercury-based preservative from vaccines, but it is still used in flu and tetanus shots.

It has long been known that efforts to infect rats with Syphilis is useless. Now we have a Supermouse that simply kills off any attempts to inject it with Cancer. Its immune system is highly effective.
In view of the item on the Heat Death of the Universe , why are we now involved in a panic about Global Warming?. The “hole” in the atmosphere, supposedly getting bigger due to Refrigerator Gas , was only recently discovered . We have NO records of its expansion and contraction over some centuries , so how can we predict anything!.
Considering these few items ,culled at random , its is obvious that at any given moment Science is just a “ragbag” of postulates firmly based in a sea of sand.
Why then are scientists so well paid when Astrology is probably more firmly based than Astronomy --- and what exactly – is a Black Hole , the “Superstrings” that wander through our universe as if it were a Ghost , a Phantasm.

2006-07-20 00:24:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-19 23:42:17 · 7 answers · asked by bluegirl 1

2006-07-19 23:37:46 · 9 answers · asked by romeqh 1

2006-07-19 23:32:22 · 5 answers · asked by th_locq 1

i have herd a rumour that it was fake , it was planned in competition with USSR.
proof;1) how can 1 see dust flying when the 1st step on moon was stepped
2) how can 1 see a flying american flag on moon where thrs no air.

2006-07-19 23:27:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous