Astronomy & Space - October 2006

2006-10-20 04:09:18 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

And how long before they tell the truth??

2006-10-20 04:07:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-20 04:04:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

a.true b.false

2006-10-20 03:48:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-20 03:44:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-20 02:56:49 · 9 answers · asked by fuchtig 1

Okay, so my friends and myself have been having this debate for a few months now, on and off when we're bored. Here is the question:
Imagine that you standing in the center of a large room, with a roof above your head. Its nighttime and all four of the walls of this room are made of glass. So a satellite in the sky can't see you from directly above the building. But, from where you are standing you can see the night sky near the horizon through the windows. So, can a satellite see you from the horizon? Or would the curvature of the planet not allow that, even though you can see the sky? If you can see the night sky, can the night sky see you?

2006-10-20 02:51:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-20 02:51:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Discovery Channel once revealed the story of Armstrong on Moon. Giving 6 reasons or questions not answerable by NASA.
What do you guys believe.

2006-10-20 02:46:01 · 26 answers · asked by Ashish 1

2006-10-20 01:36:20 · 6 answers · asked by WENDY B 2

Knowing that 1 Km= 0.062 miles, please convert

2006-10-20 00:44:50 · 10 answers · asked by dageekstunt213u 1

can any one tell me the name of the star that guides the sailors?

also suggest some synonymns for the word "light"

Thanks in Advance

2006-10-19 20:09:31 · 20 answers · asked by fiz 2

2006-10-19 19:58:56 · 15 answers · asked by tequillajenny 2

2006-10-19 19:02:25 · 4 answers · asked by stacyramey24 1

2006-10-19 18:48:00 · 19 answers · asked by sankey 1

I mean, nobody can see Pluto. It's just a small icy rock on the outer part of the solar system. There are moons and asteroids that are easier to see with a telescope than Pluto. Why would anyone care if Pluto is no longer considered a planet? Why this attachment to something they have never seen?

Any chance Yahoo can just set up a canned response that says, "Pluto is now considered a Kuiper Belt Object rather than a planet" whenever this question comes up? Nah, I suppose not....

2006-10-19 17:09:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-19 16:58:43 · 6 answers · asked by David H 4

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2006-10-19 16:16:12 · 15 answers · asked by miamiheat8372 1

2006-10-19 15:27:29 · 33 answers · asked by camred_9 2

2006-10-19 15:20:46 · 13 answers · asked by David H 4

From the earth's ground to the top of the,...where the air stops!

2006-10-19 15:12:59 · 6 answers · asked by nicolefitzgerald2003 1

It's so similar to Earth but the atmosphere, and very close.

It would be so cool if Venus could me made livable.

Can it?

2006-10-19 14:26:15 · 10 answers · asked by LaSonder D 1

2006-10-19 14:21:55 · 13 answers · asked by filipinachick 1

While we haven't explored our oceans? We spend billions to go to dead planets with no atmosphere in hope to find the fossils of micro organisms but we haven't seen what is in our oceans. I was watching a documentary and the creatures that exist down there are spectacular. More fascinating and strange than the "aliens" we see in movies...they glow and it is so hard to believe that they are actual organisms and exist here. Shouldn't we have the governments funding more research and not just some people trying to make documentaries?

2006-10-19 13:59:49 · 11 answers · asked by Nostromo 5

2006-10-19 13:57:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do we know all of this? What specific tools, and procedures, and other things did we use to find such info?
Info from Wikipedia.

Saturn is an oblate spheroid, i.e. it is flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator; its equatorial and polar diameters vary by almost 10% (120,536 km vs. 108,728 km). This is the result of its rapid rotation and fluid state. The other gas planets are also oblate, but to a lesser degree. Saturn is the only one of the Solar System's planets that is less dense than water, with an average specific density of 0.69. This is a mean value; Saturn's upper atmosphere is less dense and its core is considerably more dense than water.

2006-10-19 13:49:54 · 8 answers · asked by wiltzandrew 1

How can I explain a black hole in language an intelligen six-year-old can understand?

2006-10-19 13:28:07 · 20 answers · asked by Helen T 3

2006-10-19 13:13:46 · 15 answers · asked by babygurl39266 1

This is probably a really dumb question based on completely misunderstanding the whole idea ... but I'll ask it anyway.

There is a cosmic background radiation which is is pretty uniform in all directions but with a few ripples in it.

As far as I understand it this uniform scattering of photons started to propagate out shortly (in cosmological terms) after the big bang.

What I don't get is this. The solar system (and our galaxy) did not exist at the time, and the matter/energy from which it was formed came from matter 'condensed' from the big bang. Since that matter could travel no faster than the background radiation and would generally be travelling less quickly, how can any of the radiation be still passing us or coming towards us. I get that what we are detecting is like looking back in time but I don't see how any of this energy could be effectively behind us the race away from the big bang, even if space and time themselves are being inflated in the big bang.

2006-10-19 13:13:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-19 13:08:42 · 5 answers · asked by filthyrich 2