Excluding the Sun, the closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, at a distance of approximately 4.24 light years.
Volume-wise, you can fit 1,300,000 Earths inside the Sun, and you can fit 1,300 Earths inside Jupiter.
The *Galilean *moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei around January 1610. They are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto and are named for the lovers of Zeus (Jupiter).
IO is the stock symbol for Ion Geophysical Corporation.
You’ll like this. Antares is mind-bogglingly big: The size of the sun in comparison
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The Ion was one of the last models of cars made by the Saturn Corporation, shut down by General Motors in the wake of the 2008-2009 economic upheavals.
Saturn will be at opposition on Saturday 23 May 2015 at 01:22 UTC.
The Saturn car company lasted from 1985 to 2010. ETA: The very first Saturn car rolled off the assembly line in 1990. The final Saturn car was manufactured in 2009.
The equality clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and freedoms came into force in 1985, three years after the rest of the Charter came into force at the stroke of HM’s royal pen in 1982.
The first Australian Branch of the Royal Life Saving Society was formed in New South Wales in 1894, three years after the Society was founded in England. The Society was dedicated to the teaching of lifesaving and the prevention of drowning. In 1924 a dual system of lifesaving was established with Surf Life Saving Australia being responsible for ocean beaches and the Royal Life Saving Society responsible for all other waterways and stillwater environments.
Over 10 million Australians have learnt their essential water safety skills through the Society’s flagship ‘Swim and Survive’ program.
A number of survival training classes are offered throughout the world. One is run from Flagstaff, Arizona, called Ancient Pathways. Their signature class, “Knife Only Survival Course” ($295.00), was taken by actor Emile Hirsch as he prepared himself for his role in Into the Wild.
In honor of the Eagles’ song “Take It Easy”, there is a statue in Winslow, Arizona of a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford.
The command module of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the first manned mission to the Moon, was named Columbia, while the lunar excursion module was Eagle.
The spacecraft the explorers flew in Jules Verne’s* From the Earth to the Moon* was named Columbiad, and was launched from Florida. All right, Tampa instead of the Cape, and it was a cannon instead of a rocket, but it was a century earlier.
Launching NASA’s main rockets from the east coast of Florida and in an eastward direction takes advantage of the earth’s rotation, and also of the downrange safety zone being over the Atlantic Ocean and not over any populated areas, as shown in this rocket launch safety zone map/diagram.
The European Space Agency launches its Ariane rockets, and some Russian Soyuzes under contract, from Kourou, French Guiana, near Devil’s Island. The site near the equator gives even more of an orbital-velocity boost than NASA gets, along with requiring much less fuel to get a geosynchronous satellite to its orbital position above the equator than from a North American launch site. The northeast-facing coast allows launches into any orbital inclination from equatorial to polar without concern for boosters and other debris hitting land, while the general alignment of the US East Coast limits the range of inclinations from Cape Canaveral launches.
Devil’s Bridge (Pont du Diable, Ponte del Diavolo, Teufelsbrücke) is a term applied to dozens of ancient bridges, found primarily in Europe. Most of these bridges are stone or masonry arch bridges and represent a significant technological achievement. Each of the Devil’s Bridges has a corresponding Devil-related myth or folktale.
Devils Tower National Monument in northeastern Wyoming, prominently portrayed in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Wyoming building in Macquarie Street in Sydney was one of the first ‘high rises’ built in that part of the city. The brick and sandstone building was constructed in 1909. It was specifically designed to provide professional medical suites for the growing number of practitioners associated with the Sydney Hospital. By the late 1920s there were no fewer than 260 doctors and 100 dentists operating along Macquarie Street.
Wyoming, Colorado and Utah are the only 3 states of the USA whose state borders are only straight lines of latitude and longitude and not defined by any natural landmarks. The shapes of Wyoming and Colorado are not rectangles, but rather they are latitude and longitude quadrangles. Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the second least densely populated of the 50 United States.
Florida is the third most populous state in the US, but it has never produced a President, Vice President, nominee, or even a serious candidate for the White House, at least prior to Jeb Bush this go-around.