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- Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...nd of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...p://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1840AN.....17...81E&db_key=AST&high=41e14...
6: ... that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passage through [[Ea...
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- Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...beknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her (though the latter is not certain to have ru...
4: ...ghout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her h...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ...t it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Tw... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ember 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the [[Denmark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen ...
5: ...the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian...
7: ...uple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Bl...
9: ...he pseudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
15: ... Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ... Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ... numerous papers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she mar...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1...
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...olemy]], until they were successfully revived and developed by [[Copernicus]] nearly 2000 years later.
3: ...t [[Impact crater|crater]] on the [[Moon]], and [[asteroid]] [[3999 Aristarchus]], both named after the astr...
7: ...[hypothesis]] of the heliocentric model. [[Archimedes]] wrote:
9: ...it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the...
11: ...table with [[telescope]]s. But the [[geocentric model]] was assumed to be a simpler, better explanatio... - Earth (30908 bytes)
4: ...iker's Guide reference in here. It's been done to death. Find a gem with which to improve the article ...
7: ...l planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms as harboring [[life]]. The p...
9: ... a variant puts the cross atop the circle ([[Unicode]]: ⊕ or ♁).
14: ... diameter of approximately 12,742 km. The maximum deviations from this are the highest point on Earth ...
17: ... other [[terrestrial planets]], is chemically divided into an outer [[silicon|siliceous]] solid [[Crus... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...bjects that orbit around it, including meteors, [[asteroid]]s, [[comet]]s, [[natural satellite|moon]]s, and ...
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System...
20: [[Image:Portrait de famille (1 px = 1000 km).jpg|thumb|center|550px|T...
23: ...s, mainly Earth, as well as probes heading into [[deep space]].
25: **[[Space debris]] of artificial origin that can be found in o... - Sun (20830 bytes)
2: ...="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;" align="right" width=280px
13: ! align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
16: ! align="left" | [[Absolute magnitude]]
48: ! align="left" | Density
76: | 7.25[[degree (angle)|?]] <br>(to the [[ecliptic]]) <br>67.... - Planetary system (2476 bytes)
1: ...tar]] and various [[orbit]]ing objects (such as [[asteroid]]s, [[comet]]s, [[natural satellite|moon]]s, and ...
5: ...w known to be far too low to make this a viable model. Accepted theories today argue that planetary s...
7: ...blast - planets would either evaporate, or the sudden loss of most of the mass of the central star wou... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...nd of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...p://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1840AN.....17...81E&db_key=AST&high=41e14...
6: ... that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passage through [[Ea... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...mets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and va...
5: ...their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
11: ... sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes...
15: ...ics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary ...
17: ...and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits]. - Planet (8450 bytes)
1: ...jects in orbit around other stars, the problem of defining a planet has become rather more acute.
3: ... gas and dust that orbited the [[protostar]] in a dense protostellar disk before the star's core ignit...
7: ...ase of Uranus) from the plays of [[Shakespeare]]. Asteroids can be named, at the discretion of their discove...
16: ...Mars]] (♂) - 2 satellites ([[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]], [[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]])
25: ... size between Mercury and Ceres, which would include the five objects mentioned above (Pluto, Sedna, O... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...ary|dictionaries]] and [[encyclopedia]]s (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the wor...
3: It includes listings or tabular information for quick refere...
7: ...ve come back to this page, paste the javascript code you have copied into your URL window and run it. ...
9: <!-- [[Wikipedia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists even large.
13: ...llpadding=1 cellspacing=0 style="float: right; border-collapse: collapse"> - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ... on Stratigraphy]], and uses the standard color codes of the [[United States Geologic Survey]].
3: ...tinction event|extinction event]] that marked the demise of the [[dinosaur]]s and of many marine [[spe...
7: ... there are far more recognized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...phy to reconcile this conflicting terminology and define universal horizons that can be used around th...
13: ...eroded, distorted, tilted, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in ... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...]], is named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]]. A [[terrestrial...
5: ...r: a circle with a small cross underneath ([[Unicode]]: ♀).
7: ...m [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives include ''Venerean'' and ''Veneran''.
14: ...ficantly between the night and day sides of Venus despite its extremely slow rotation (less than one r...
16: ...quite similar to Earth. A common conceptual misunderstanding regarding Venus is the mistaken belief t... - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: [[Image:Mars NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap....
4: ...small and oddly-shaped, possibly being captured [[asteroid]]s. The prefix '''areo-''' refers to Mars.
8: ...e. Its red, fiery appearance is caused by Iron Oxide (rust) on its surface. Mars has only a quarter th...
11: ...he atmosphere on Mars is 95 percent [[carbon dioxide]], 3 percent [[nitrogen]], 1.6 percent [[argon]],...
13: ... volcanic methane is accompanied by [[sulfur dioxide]]. - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
1: ...="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" align="righ...
4: ...]]<br/><small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
39: | 1.305 30°<br>(6.09? to [[Sun]]'s equator)
41: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
42: | 100.556 15° - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
1: ...cing=0 align=right style="margin:0 0 .5em 1em; border-collapse:collapse;" width=280px;
4: ...]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
39: | 2.484 46°<br>(5.51? to Sun's equator)
41: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
42: | 113.715 04° - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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48: | 0.769 86°<br>(6.48? to Sun's equator)
50: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
51: | 74.229 88° - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
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10: | [[Clyde Tombaugh|Clyde W. Tombaugh]]
48: | 17.141 75°<br>(11.88? to Sun's equator)
50: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
51: | 110.303 47°
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