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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: [[Image:Arthur3487.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identif...
19: ..., chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember."
25: ...r's soldiers; Arthur was awarded a herd of cattle from Cadoc as [[wergeld]] for his men; Cadoc deliver...
29: ...tury]] at Cadbury Castle, and in several parts of France. - Solar system (21174 bytes)
26: ...o refer to asteroids and comets in general, or to asteroids below 10 km in diameter.
28: ...[Asteroid moon]]s are asteroids that orbit larger asteroids. They are not as clearly distinguished as planeta...
29: ...nts]], though the term is also sometimes used for asteroids in any other planetary Lagrange point as well.
30: **[[Meteoroid]]s are asteroids that range in size from roughly boulder sized to particles as small as ...
31: ...ven out by solar warming are often categorized as asteroids. Some comets with [[hyperbola|hyperbolic]] orbits... - Sun (20830 bytes)
10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
122: ...onally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the ...
128: ...istance of about 25,000 to 28,000 [[light-year]]s from the [[galactic centre]], completing one revolut... - Planetary system (2476 bytes)
5: ... theories today argue that planetary systems form from a [[solar nebula]].
7: ...ary systems around [[pulsar]]s have been inferred from slight variations in the period of the pulses o... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
4: The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', '...
8: ...sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passage through [[Ear...
10: ...taxonomy of the subplanetary objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes ...
12: ==Asteroids in Earth's Solar System== - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - Planet (8450 bytes)
3: ...g [[nebula]] that a star formed from, aggregating from gas and dust that orbited the [[protostar]] in ...
7: ...ase of Uranus) from the plays of [[Shakespeare]]. Asteroids can be named, at the discretion of their discover...
10: [[Image:Solare_Planeten99.jpg|framed|Planets in approx. scale of size, but not dis...
12: ...anets in our solar system (in increasing distance from the [[Sun]]):
29: ...nts, are a sub-class of gas giants, distinguished from true Jovians by their depletion in hydrogen and... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
156: **[[List of noteworthy asteroids]]
157: **[[Aten asteroid|List of Aten asteroids]]
158: **[[Apollo asteroid|List of Apollo asteroids]]
159: **[[Amor asteroid|List of Amor asteroids]] - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: '''Mars''' is the fourth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is name...
6: ...#x2642; (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representation of the...
15: ...en summer and winter, giving rise to Earth-like [[frost]] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrove...
18: ...tic field would have helped to protect the planet from [[cosmic radiation]]. Other explanations have a...
22: Amongst the findings from the Opportunity rover is the presence of [[hema... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ..., or "YOOR-ə-nus") is the seventh [[planet]] from the [[Sun]]. It is a [[gas giant]], the third l...
157: ... regions of Uranus receive a greater energy input from the Sun than its equatorial regions. Uranus is ...
172: ...rgium Sidus'' or "the Georgian" were still used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The fi...
179: ...nditions. It can be easily found with binoculars. From Earth it has a diameter of 4". Even in large te...
206: ... they found that the star had disappeared briefly from view five times both before and after it disapp... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
120: '''Pluto''' is the ninth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]]. Because Pl...
126: ...eone else did". Soon suggestions began to pour in from all over the world. Constance Lowell, [[Perciva...
128: ...tia Burney]], at the time an eleven-year-old girl from [[Oxford, England|Oxford]], [[England]]. Over t...
140: ...o speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from the Sun, stays ahead of Neptune, and pulls ahea...
146: ...the case of Pluto, the star dimmed out gradually. From the rate of dimming, the atmosphere was determi... - Ernest William Brown (1403 bytes)
- Molecular nanotechnology (10344 bytes)
3: ... when we cause a particular chemical reaction, we frequently get a mix of several different product sp...
31: ...and the reliable and relatively painless recovery from physical trauma. Medical nanorobots will also ...
45: ...e [[digital cash]] or physical specie[http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/TangibleNanomoney.htm] (in special ...
47: ...r person (the love of a famous person, a painting from a famous artist). Demand will always exceed sup...
55: ... of nanotechnology. These include the banning of free-foraging self-replicating pseudo-organisms on t... - Moon (37975 bytes)
6: ...ll.jpg|250px|none|The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth]]
7: <small><font color="white">The Moon as seen from Earth</font></small>
190: ...', the terms ''selene/seleno'' and ''cynthion'' (from the [[Lunar deity|Lunar deities]] [[Selene]] an...
192: The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 [[kilometre]]s...
194: ...o 11]]. The first men sent ''to'' the Moon were [[Frank Borman]], [[Jim Lovell|James Lovell]] and [[Wi... - Iron (23778 bytes)
135: ...of iron in the various layers of the Earth ranges from high at the inner core to about 5% in the outer...
137: ...ed from iron ore, and is hardly ever found in the free (elemental) state. In order to obtain elementa...
146: ...icance is that of an intermediate step on the way from [[iron ore]] to [[cast iron]] and [[steel]].
154: ... northern and western European languages, derives from the [[Etruscan]] ''aisar'' which means "the god...
156: ... numbers of smelted iron objects (distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the prod... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
48: ...the [[world economy]]. Structural components made from aluminium are vital to the [[aerospace]] indust...
58: ...so coated with a thin layer of aluminium, but are front coated to avoid internal reflections even thou...
82: ...lue if people started producing this bright metal from clay. Therefore, instead of giving the goldsmit...
86: ...in bauxite ore and successfully extracted it. The Frenchman [[Henri Saint-Claire Deville]] improved W?...
88: ...t process]] in [[1886]] made extracting aluminium from minerals cheaper, and is now the principal meth... - Echinoderm (4512 bytes)
18: * [[Asteroidea]] (asteroids / [[starfish]]es or sea stars): 1,500 species tha...
27: ...e lopsided. Echinoderms' larvae are [[cilia]]ted free-swimming organisms that organize in a bilateral...
29: ... spines called pedicellariae that keep the animal free of debris.
41: Echinodermata is the largest phylum to lack any fresh water or land representatives.
44: ...inodermata&contgroup=Deuterostomia Echinodermata] from the ''Tree of Life'' website. - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
26: Along with [[Fritz Zwicky]], he proposed that [[supernova]]e coul...
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