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- List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
171: *[[List of stars]]
172: **[[List of nearest stars]]
173: **[[List of brightest stars]]
174: **[[List of traditional star names]]
175: **[[List of mnemonics for star classification]] - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
9: ...The term derives of the Greek words ''á³´ron'' ("star") and ''nautes,'' ("sailor"). For the most part, ...
28: ... of the [[Space Shuttle]]. In [[1980]] [[France]] started their own selection of astronauts, followed in... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
5: ...anese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
192: ...s current mass in this theory; but, as the [[protostar]] contracted, temperatures near Mercury could hav...
211: ...a-v]] or energy to fall towards the Sun; however, starting from the Earth, with an [[orbital speed]] of ...
223: ...Russian [[Soyuz]] rockets will launch the probes, starting in [[2011]]–[[2012|12]]. The probes wil...
254: ...e/Galaxies_and_Stars.htm Pictures of Galaxies and Stars] - American football (39287 bytes)
11: ...n the league are selected to play an annual [[all-star game]], the [[Pro Bowl]], in [[Honolulu]]. The NF...
59: A '''kickoff''' starts each half, and also restarts play following a field goal or touchdown. At th...
61: ...ty, a free kick similar to a kickoff is used to restart the game. The team that was scored upon kicks th...
64: ...ay can only be challenged before the next one has started.
68: ...reverse referees' rulings existed for six seasons starting in [[1986]]. This earlier system did not util... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
5: ...nown direction to Canopus as backup. Pioneer 11's star sensor gain and threshold settings were modified,... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
16: ...lescope]] and the discovery of the first [[binary star]]. He also receives credit with inventing the fi... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
22: ... naming of these objects, changing his ''Medicean stars'' to ''Galilean satellites''. The demonstration ...
30: ... be clouds from Earth. He also located many other stars too distant to be visible with the naked eye.
32: ... in his notebooks as one of many unremarkable dim stars.
39: ...law for acceleration: the total distance covered, starting from rest, is proportional to the square of t...
66: ...efracting telescope]] as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
6: ...nd in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
107: ...ert Einstein]] in a poker game in an episode of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]. Newton was notable i... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
21: ...pernova]] which was subsequently named [[Kepler's Star]]. In January [[1612]] the Emperor died, and Kep...
46: ...e second in a generation, later called [[Kepler's Star]] or [[Supernova 1604]]. No further supernovae ha...
65: ...[1606]]) Kepler explicated the meaning of the new star of [[1604]] as the conversion of [[The_Americas|A...
73: ...'De Stella nova in pede Serpentarii'' (On the New Star in Ophiuchus's Foot) ([[1604]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
18: ...was left with only a fifth of that money. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and...
23: ...g, in 1589, the reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, a valuable appointment, into the enjoyme...
33: ...n 1608), he had entered upon the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, and was in the enjoyment of a large inco...
56: ...wain's last book , "Is Shakespeare Dead" are good starting points to understand the remarkable and persu...
66: ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1560 - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
47: ...ation of Independence]], and a band played "[[The Star Spangled Banner]]." Ho had hoped that the United...
59: ...icially adopted the national red flag with a gold star, and Ho read an appeal to the Vietnamese people t...
89: ... resist the pressures of these organizations, his startlingly successful (and US-backed) campaigns again...
146: ...aims that Kennedy ordered the [[US Air Force]] to start bombing South Vietnam as early as [[1962]], usin...
204: Then on [[August 18]], [[1965]], [[Operation Starlite]] began as the first major American ground ba... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
132: ...et relations of the Reagan era. Popularly dubbed "Star Wars" at the time, SDI was a multibillion dollar ... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
378: *[[Traverse City North Stars]], [[North American Hockey League]]
412: ...ate gem [[chlorastrolite]], literally the ''green star stone'', also known as the ''[[Isle Royale]] gree... - Bill Buckner (4174 bytes)
5: ...of 40) with the [[Boston Red Sox]]. He was an All-Star in 1981. He won the [[National League]] batting t... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...isible in dark skies it is by far the brightest [[star]]-like object in the sky.
9: ...]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
31: ... since been discredited (they were mostly faint [[star]]s that happened to be in the right place at the ...
36: ... ''Dil-i-pat''; in [[Akkad]]ia it was the special star of the mother-god ''[[Ishtar]]''; and in [[Chines...
38: ...ion|Maya]], who called it ''Chak ek'', "the Great Star", possibly more important even than the Sun. The ... - Mars (27704 bytes)
147: ...acters 火星, which translate as "Fire Star." This is based on [[Five Elements]] which was tr...
245: ...Space/Galaxies_and_Stars Pictures of Galaxies and Stars] - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
140: ...n]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Wood Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
145: ...t seventy times as massive if it were to become a star.
275: ...]]), fictional technology converts Jupiter into a star by increasing the density of its core.
278: * In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe, Jupiter is home to [[Jupiter S...
302: ...Space/Galaxies_and_Stars Pictures of Galaxies and Stars] - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
248: ...naked eye in the night sky as a bright, yellowish star varying usually between magnitude +1 and 0 and ta...
283: *In ''[[Star Trek]]'', Saturn is used for the Starfleet Academy Flight Range.
288: ... culture designates the planet Saturn with "Earth Star." This is based on Five Elements which was tradit...
305: ...Space/Galaxies_and_Stars Pictures of Galaxies and Stars] - Uranus (15207 bytes)
168: ...asions but was always dismissed as simply another star. The earliest recorded sighting was in [[1690]] w...
172: ...d]]. When it was pointed out that ''sidus'' means star and not planet, he rebaptised it the ''Georgian P...
179: ..., so it can be seen with the naked eye as a faint star under dark sky conditions. It can be easily found...
206: ...y analysed their observations they found that the star had disappeared briefly from view five times both...
268: ...Space/Galaxies_and_Stars Pictures of Galaxies and Stars] - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
152: ...''extremely'' slow motion of ''any'' random fixed star found in the [[night sky]].
156: ...ots. However, in the same year, [[John Herschel]] started to champion the mathematical approach and pers...
158: ...tic of a [[planet]], as opposed to a stationary [[star]]. Neptune was discovered that very night, [[Sept...
169: ...bserve it. It can be also photographed as a faint star with a normal camera and high sensitive film. Fro...
200: ...ink" just before or after the planet occulted the star. Images by ''[[Voyager 2]]'' in [[1989]] settled ...
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