... it all boiled away this make it quite a dry planet now (Venus 2). Recent findings indicate Venus is still volcanically active but only in a few hot spots. There are no known satellites or moons on Venus. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon, ... is hotter than the surface of the sun (Earth 1)! Earth's crust is divided into several separate solid plates, which float around independently on top of the hot mantle (Earth 2). The eight major plates on the Earth are the North American Plate, South American Plate, Antarctic Plate, Eurasian Plate, African Plate, ...

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... star is Alnilam. These four stars are all navigational stars. Three faint stars below the belt form the sword of Orion, the middle one of which is actually four very hot stars, the Trapezium, embedded in the Great Nebula of Orion (M42) (See Appendix 4 and 5). M43 is actually a part of the Great Orion Nebula, as stated in the web site http ... years (light travels about 9 times 1012 km/yr., which is about 6 trillion miles/year). The Orion Nebula consists of dense plasma, ionized by the ultra violet radiation of a group of hot stars less than 100, 000 years old known as the Trapezium clus...

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... . Since there is only a small amount of water vapor in the air, dust is the driving force behind storm activity as it heats the atmosphere by absorbing sunlight. Like Earth hot air that rises at the planet's equator is replaced with cooler air. Trade winds result from the cooler air to circulate the dust. Dust storms cause a temperature change on the ... the wind speeds vary, with the highest speeds found at the planet's equator. The slowest winds are found near the poles ("The Planets"). The interior temperature of Saturn is very hot, and is about 12,000K at the core (Arnett). Uranus Th...

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... as refreshing rain. It is a well-known fact that water heats and cools at a much slower rate than a solid land mass, which explains why desert regions can be Nicholas 8 blistering hot in the daytime and freezing cold at night. Water, however, holds its temperature longer, and provides a sort of natural heating/air-conditioning system for the land areas of the Earth ... ...

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... model is that thermonuclear reactions are the only source of energy production inside the star. HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM What this means in plain English is that there are two forces on a hot fluid which is massive enough so that gravity counts, and the pressure force balances the self-gravity so that the total force on each piece of the fluid is zero ... ...

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