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Meteor Facts - All about Meteors

Observing meteors in the sky is one of the fun experience for beginner astronomer. You’ll be able to view meteor showers without using any telescope. But If you want to get more details then you can use small optical telescope or large optical...

13 comments    science universe space
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Google Logos

First, I would like to start off by saying Happy 11th Birthday Google! We all have heard it, the famous sayings "Google it" if you want to know something about anything. For 11 years, Google has provided not only an amazing search bar preference,...

5 comments    internet online google
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What is a meteor shower ?

A meteor shower is one of nature's most breathtaking scenes, but as wonderful as they are to gaze upon, they are even more amazing when you know what causes them! To understand a meteor shower though, we must...

6 comments    science space astronomy
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Observing The Perseid Meteor Shower Of 2011

This article gives useful information on oberving major astronomical events such as meteor showers. It also gives a detailed summary about the recent Perseid meteor shower of August 2011

0 comments    atmosphere binoculars perseus
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Clouds, Meteors, And The Hairs On Your Head

Matthew 10:30 'But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.' My family and I recently returned from a short little camping trip to Ottawa Lake. The weather was amazingly hot and the mosquitoes were...

8 comments    christ praise yahweh
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The Stars are Brilliant Tonight

I open the blinds on the window by the bed. Without my glasses, I can't see the stars, but I know that they are there, shining brightly, many more than we could see in town. Our galaxy, or part of another galaxy? Stars, planets,...

9 comments    stars owl satellites
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Top 3 Meteor Showers 2011

One of the coolest things to do, as well as one of the coolest things to see, on the entire planet is a full-fledged meteor shower. Think about it. There you are, laying on some piece of ground, maybe it's...

0 comments    meteor meteor shower
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The Precession Problem

How do we know exactly where the sun is in relation to the background stars. As the sun is so bright, this is no easy task. However, we have ways of finding out and what we have found is that the apparent movement of the sun is not as straight forward as many have thought. The earth is affected in its orbit by the other planets and wobbles on its axis of rotation. Precession is defined by the solar position against the background stars at key points of the year and they vary.

0 comments    solar system oort cloud
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A Yosemite Hiking and Camping Experience-5 Summer Nights under the Stars from Virginia Lakes to Touloumne

Yosemite back country hiking, fishing and camping with text and photos of scenery, tents, backpacks.

2 comments    travel vacation fishing
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Our Earth: A true survivor

We truely live on a planet that has and still is going through things that are beyond belief. First, the comet that destroyed the dinos. That could not have been fun but somehow Mother Earth hung in there...

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