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101Oort cloud — An artist s rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt (inset). Sizes of individual objects have been exaggerated for visibility …
102White dwarf — For other uses, see White dwarf (disambiguation). Image of Sirius A and Sirius B taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Sirius B, which is a white dwarf, can be seen as a faint pinprick of light to the lower left of the much brighter Sirius A …
103Year — A year (from Old English gēar) is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic. In astronomy, the… …
104Fading — This article is about signal loss in telecommunications. For the poetry book, see Fading (book). For other uses, see Fade (disambiguation). Frequency selective time varying fading causes a cloudy pattern to appear on a spectrogram. Time is shown… …
105Raoul Island — Anvil shaped Raoul Island ( Sunday Island ), the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, (located at coord|29|15|S|177|55|W|, 900 km SSW of Ata Island of Tonga and 1100 km NNE of New Zealand s North Island), has been the source of… …
106Stars and planetary systems in fiction — The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in much science fiction. Contents 1 Overview 1.1 The brightest stars …
107particle accelerator — accelerator (def. 7). [1945 50] * * * Device that accelerates a beam of fast moving, electrically charged atoms (ions) or subatomic particles. Accelerators are used to study the structure of atomic nuclei (see atom) and the nature of subatomic… …
108Dinosaur — For other uses, see Dinosaur (disambiguation). Dinosaurs Temporal range: Late Triassic–Late Cretaceous, 231.4–65.5 Ma …
109Great Famine (Ireland) — The Great Famine ( ga. An Gorta Mór [The term has appeared in the titles of numerous books on the event, as demonstrated by [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Gorta+Mo%CC%81r%22 =Search qt=results page this search on WorldCat] ] or ga. An… …
110John Wallis — Infobox Scientist name = John Wallis box width = 300px |300px image width = 300px caption = birth date = birth date|1616|11|23 birth place = Ashford, Kent, England death date = death date and age|1703|10|28|1616|11|23 death place = Oxford,… …
