Astronomy & Space - April 2007

2007-04-10 12:03:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I live in New York. My bed room faces north. I NEVER, in 13 years of living here, have ever seen the sun out side my window. from what i remember of highschool science. if you live up north the sun is always in the south as it rises in the east and sets in the west. correct? if i also recall correctly, it reaches its zenith on july 21st in the northern hemisphere. its directly over one of the tropics at this point right? tropic of cancer? that is still somehwere in mexico i believe. so the sun, no matter, what should always be south of new york. right? why is it in the north coming through my bed room window right now?


ps. this is 100% serious question. i realyl have never seen the sun in this possition....and its freaking me out. THANKS.

2007-04-10 12:01:37 · 4 answers · asked by crazypills 2

2007-04-10 11:58:33 · 11 answers · asked by Adrian G 1

2007-04-10 11:58:19 · 6 answers · asked by Templar 3

2007-04-10 11:57:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-10 11:55:57 · 10 answers · asked by Adrian G 1

Is the only reason that you removed Pluto from the list is that it goes against the Big Bang?

2007-04-10 11:55:56 · 5 answers · asked by Templar 3

2007-04-10 11:43:44 · 9 answers · asked by Adrian G 1

2007-04-10 11:27:48 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5

2007-04-10 11:22:58 · 7 answers · asked by ? 5

I am totally lost on this problem. Could somebody please assist me? Thank you very much!

The planets move around the sun in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus. The point in the orbit at which the planet is closest to the sun is called perihelion, and the point at which it is farthest is called aphelion. These points are the vertices of the orbit. The earth's distance from the sun is 147,000,000 km at perihelion and 153,000,000 km at aphelion. Find an equation for the earth's orbit. (Place the origin at the center of the orbit with the sun on the x-axis.)

Here's all I have so far:

(x^2 / a^2) + (y^2 / b^2) = 1

so...

(x^2 / 2.25 x 10^16) + y^2 / ???) = 1

Basically, I need help on the ??? part. Thanks again!

2007-04-10 11:15:57 · 3 answers · asked by sg88 1

What would happen if the sun died down and insted of everyone freezing we all lived?

2007-04-10 11:14:08 · 6 answers · asked by HanHan 2

as Jupiter is a big ball of gas and the Sun is hot...

what if Jupiter was in Mercurys position, would the planet blow up ?

2007-04-10 11:06:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

explain your answer as best you can and try to have some imagination.

2007-04-10 11:00:45 · 16 answers · asked by SHELLTOE BISCUITS 3

Thanks in advance.

2007-04-10 10:54:04 · 11 answers · asked by saphier 2

just out of curiosity would a solar sail be able to cross from our own solar system to another? would it be possible to use the light of a destination star past the midway point? what kind of acceleration are we talking about with a solar sail?

2007-04-10 10:53:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

the Soviets (Russians) who left earths atmosphere first

or

the americans who landed on the moon first

2007-04-10 10:00:06 · 10 answers · asked by philosophizer 2

2007-04-10 09:56:55 · 7 answers · asked by cleverguy 1

2007-04-10 09:56:32 · 12 answers · asked by chloe1995 3

by walking to the land and discover everthing that you see in the land.

2007-04-10 09:55:00 · 3 answers · asked by JOSE S 1

it is for an assighnment

2007-04-10 09:50:04 · 8 answers · asked by nickjonasroxtheworld!!!!!!! 3

In it's circumference around the equator.

maybe around .000000001?

i know its not even near 1.

2007-04-10 09:48:01 · 7 answers · asked by Ben 2

My head is spinning as I just heard people are buying areas of the moon as a new property investment trend!!! How is this possible? To sell the moon, doesn't someone have to own the moon? Who wrote the deed and in what country(ies) would it be legal? What body of people decided it was legal and who gave them the authority? And, if someone bought some bits of the moon, how can they know for sure what they bought?

2007-04-10 09:47:29 · 13 answers · asked by covduo2 4

I am really interested in space exploration, travel etc and the theories/predictions regarding humanity's future with space, but one thing always concerns me.

I do not understand why Countries separate themselves when it comes down to modern human advancement with various things such as technology, space exploration, medication etc. I personally do not think that the human race can advance and reach its full potential unless the countries of the world unify and share technology, ideas and innovation. Its common knowledge that working together as a team is far more beneficial then working alone. It just seems to me that human advancement is about competing with other countries.

For example, space exploration has always seemed to be about which country can do what first, why isn't there a world union in which each country works together to progress and fund the advancement of space exploration? WASA instead of NASA?

2007-04-10 09:45:45 · 5 answers · asked by lokimercury 1

This was an extra credit question on a math test I had and everyone put that it was because there was no gravity in space, but there is. So.. what causes them to float?

2007-04-10 09:42:48 · 11 answers · asked by Jackie 2

I'm curious because I have to write an essay on it and I thought about the question and all I could think of was plain out competition. If you want to beat the other guy then you have to be better and push forward in technology and science.
I've noticed that my teacher was mainly referring to Space and spacecraft.
What are your thoughts on this?

2007-04-10 09:42:08 · 3 answers · asked by DisneyLover 6

2007-04-10 09:41:49 · 12 answers · asked by cleverguy 1

If the Earth just stopped turning would the airplanes in the air be affected by it?

2007-04-10 09:38:48 · 12 answers · asked by Pocket 1

2007-04-10 09:37:25 · 3 answers · asked by Marty 1

also, does the universe have a name?

2007-04-10 09:36:56 · 5 answers · asked by Brianna T 3