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Sci-Fi - everyone is familiar with the
fan favorites such as Terminator, Hell Boy, all
the Horror Flicks, Star Wars, Star Trek,
Babylon 5, the Star Ship Enterprise and the like
- but some Sci-Fi topics or titles are not so
familiar - like, "Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes
from Outer Space" - but for topics both new and
those that feel like "old friends" - you'll find
a reference to them here. Looking for
information on Aliens? Alien adductions
and autopsies? What's the possibility of
you being part of the first colonization of
mars? Are you curious about UFO sightings or the
Top ten space travel questions?
Did you
know? (from How Stuff Works - science)
Credit
NASA with another milestone in space
exploration: On February 12, 2001, a
spacecraft landed on the surface of an
asteroid for the first time in history.
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After a
year spent orbiting the asteroid 433 Eros,
the Near Earth
Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
spacecraft made a controlled descent to the
surface. But what exactly is an asteroid?
And what was the NEAR Shoemaker mission
about?
In
1772, a mathematician named Johann Titus and
an astronomer named Johann Bode discovered a
mathematical sequence in the distances of
the planets from the sun -- this sequence
predicted the possibility of a planet
orbiting in between Mars and Jupiter at 2.8
AU (2.6x108
mi / 4.2x108
km) from the sun. So astronomers began to
search for this possible planet, and in
1801, an Italian astronomer named Giuseppi
Piazzi found a faint body at that distance
that he named Ceres. However, Ceres was
fainter than Mars or Jupiter, so Piazzi
concluded that it was much smaller. Other
small bodies were later found in this same
vicinity. These objects were named asteroids
(meaning star-like) or minor planets.
Ok,
if you're getting impatient with the real stuff
of science, come on inside and get to the meat
of Sci-Fi all the time!!!
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