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111Giovanni Battista Zupi — or Zupus (c. 1590 ndash; 1650) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.He was born in Catanzaro. In 1639, Giovanni was the first person to discover that the planet Mercury had orbital phases, just like the Moon and Venus. His… …
112Vulcan — Vul•can [[t]ˈvʌl kən[/t]] n. 1) myt the Roman god of fire and metalworking: identified with the Greek god Hephaestus 2) astron. a hypothetical planet nearest the sun whose existence was erroneously postulated to account for perturbations in… …
113Mercuryprogramm — Mercury Logo Das Mercury Programm war das erste bemannte Raumfahrtprogramm der Vereinigten Staaten. Es dauerte von 1958 bis 1963 und hatte zum Ziel, einen Menschen im Orbit um die Erde zu fliegen. Die Frühphase wurde von der National Advisory… …
114Mercuryprojekt — Mercury Logo Das Mercury Programm war das erste bemannte Raumfahrtprogramm der Vereinigten Staaten. Es dauerte von 1958 bis 1963 und hatte zum Ziel, einen Menschen im Orbit um die Erde zu fliegen. Die Frühphase wurde von der National Advisory… …
115Inferior Planets — Mercury and Venus, which have orbits smaller than Earth s orbit. See Superior Planets, Jovian Planets and Terrestrial Planets …
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116Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
117Planet — This article is about the astronomical object. For other uses, see Planet (disambiguation) …
118Solar System — This article is about the Sun and its planetary system. For other systems, see planetary system and star system. For a list of physical and orbital statistics for the Solar System s largest bodies, see List of gravitationally rounded objects of… …
119space exploration — Investigation of the universe beyond Earth s atmosphere by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft. Study of the use of rockets for spaceflight began early in the 20th century. Germany s research on rocket propulsion in the 1930s led to… …
120Planets in astrology — ‹ The template below (Astrology) is being considered for merging. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › Astrology …
