earth's orbit
81Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey — The CINEOS program (Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey), started in 2001, is dedicated to the discovery and follow up of Near Earth objects, namely asteroids and comets which periodically approach or intersect the Earth s orbit.In… …
82Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker — ▪ spacecraft first spacecraft to orbit and then land on an asteroid ( Eros, on Feb. 12, 2001). The NEAR spacecraft was launched by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Feb. 17, 1996. Its destination, Eros, was the second… …
83Miss Earth — Logo of the Miss Earth Pageant Motto Beauties for a Cause Formation 2001 Type Beauty Pagea …
84Snowball Earth — The Snowball Earth hypothesis as it was originally proposedcite book author = Kirschvink, J.L. year = 1992 chapter = Late Proterozoic low latitude global glaciation: The snowball Earth title = The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study… …
85The Green Hills of Earth — is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, and of a song, The Green Hills of Earth , mentioned in several of his novels. One of his Future History stories, the short story originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post (February 8 …
86Transit of Earth from Neptune — A transit of Earth across the Sun as seen from Neptune takes place when the planet Earth passes directly between the Sun and Neptune, obscuring a small part of the Sun s disc for an observer on Neptune. During a transit, Earth can be seen from… …
87Near Earth Asteroid Prospector — The Near Earth Asteroid Prospector, or NEAP, was a concept for a small innovative commercial spacecraft mission by the private company SpaceDev. The goal was to fly NEAP to a targeted near Earth asteroid residing beyond the Earth s orbit,… …
88terrestrial orbit — Žemės orbita statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Earth’s orbit; terrestrial orbit vok. Erdbahn, f; Erdumlaufbahn, f rus. земная орбита, f; орбита Земли, f pranc. orbite de la Terre, f; orbite terrestre, f …
89Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth — The terms greenhouse and icehouse Earth refer to the prevailing global climate on a timescale of millions of years.During a greenhouse Earth period, the planet s atmosphere contains sufficient greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane… …
90Structure of the Earth — Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Left picture is not to scale. The interior structure of the Earth, similar to the outer, is layered. These layers can be defined by either their chemical or their rheological properties. The Earth has an… …
