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Overview of Extrasolar Planets

But isnt it just possible that there potentially exists a planet full of lush forests and/or fertile oceans? From this environmen...

The Case for Mars by Zubrin and Wagner

the option in order to support colonization efforts that are based on figures that demonstrate the declining stability of Earth. ...

New Planets' Discovery and Infrared Astronomy

0.75 microns, unless the light source is very intense (2002). The Universe sends a great amount of information as either light or...

Earth's Equilibrium

of ice that have broken free from their stable foundation; to analyze this single example is to understand the potential catastrop...

LIfe's Basic Properties

bound up in the behavioral aspect of lifes properties. A number of variables play integral roles in how life forms propel themsel...

Reclassifying Pluto

This research paper describes the rationale behind the reclassification of Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet. Five pages in le...

Epidemiology and Climate Change

It should be clear that the health of the planet has a direct impact on the health of humans. In fact, each has an effect on the o...

Discussion of Extra Solar Planets

(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...

Rachel Carson's "The Obligation To Endure" - Analysis

"These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemica...

Earth and Mars

formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty million years ago. This explanation is commonly referred to as the...

Overview of the Planet Venus

dioxide. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere to heat the surface of the planet" and the "Heat is radiated out, but is trapped b...

Overview of Extra Solar Planets

In twelve pages extra solar planets are considered in an overview of their research history and the impact of changes in technolog...

New Planet Discovery Through Radio Astronomy

Drake had codified his chances of success in 1961, something that led to a formulation that had come to be known as the Drake equa...

Lonely Planet Book Publisher (Profile)

Planet: Company History," 2008). When they came home excited about their journey, they decided that they wanted to share the exper...

Second-Order Predation: Alternative To The Overkill Theory

Nature has very effectively balanced the animal kingdom with predators and prey; when the predator population is drastically reduc...

Significance Of The Telescope

of such a monumental piece of scientific machinery, the world would not have acquired the mountain of information, photographs and...

Fuel Cells

a practical solution for the long run. Fuel cells are an important enabling technology for the hydrogen economy and have the pote...

In Search of Planet Vulcan

planetary motion (Baum and Sheehan, 1997). Sometimes, science experienced great triumphs; at other times, it was ludicrously wrong...

The Dusty Red Planet

planet-altering events when the atmosphere finally breaks down and massive discharge activity is initiated" ("When Dust Storms Eng...

A Comparison of the Planets

the planets. Wind plays a role in this process as does water (at least on Earth). Both work to whittle away at the Earths surfac...

The Field Museum, Evolving Planet Exhibit

Chicago features a fascinating exhibit, which is titled "Evolving Planet." The focus of the exhibit is on the progression of evolu...

Factors Affecting Man's Ability to Eventually Colonize Other Planets

Can humans eventually adapt to the point that they could successfully colonize other planets? This paper discusses mutation and a...

Sustaining the Planet

to greater carelessness in the use of resources. One of the central problems is that individuals perceive the need for more mater...

A Planet No More! Pluto's New Classification

in charge of the area in its orbit. It also needs to be able to absorb everything within its orbit. Pluto does not have the abilit...

Is the Lonely Planet Website Effective?

travelers interested in Australia. When looking at the Lonely Planet website this is a commercial website. The website is trading ...

Microlensing Planet Detection

as visible, and as such visual observations will not indicate the presence of planets in distant galaxies as they will be lost in ...

Planet Hollywood, Marriott, and McDonalds and Teamwork as a TQM Concept

will work, however, without full and open communication at all levels of the organization. In many organizations, little communic...

Planet Hunters

In five pages this paper examines the observations of University of California at Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Marcy regarding plan...

Self Identity and Doug Coupland's Shampoo Planet

the environment and is torn by the pollution that has almost destroyed Lancaster. On top of it all, he doesnt understand his pare...

The Vulnerable Planet by John Bellamy Foster Reviewed

In five pages this paper discusses the environmental catastrophes detailed in this text by John Bellamy Foster. One source is cit...