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High School Understanding Gravity: The Moon's Orbit in Our Solar System Explained
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High School Direction of rotation in our Solar System
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High School Figuring the location of the sun
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High School Beginner's Guide to Stargazing: Tips for Observing Space from Mumbai, India
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High School Are there any equations I can solve on a 10-hour road trip?
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High School Earth transits the Sun as viewed from Mars in 2005?
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High School Getting to Mars: Is 4 Days Possible?
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High School Are there any stars that do not have a planetary system?
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High School Can Staring at Stars Really Make You Deaf?
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High School Difference between Astronomy and Cosmology is?
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High School What Causes the Green Tint in Some Meteors?
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High School What is the other focus in an elliptical orbit?
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High School Gravitational Force: Why Don't Planets Collide?”
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High School Why Doesn't Earth Fall into the Sun Due to Gravity?
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High School Is the ground moving or are we moving?
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High School Why does the sun travel faster about its equator?
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High School Can I (amateur astronomer) detect extrasolar planets?
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High School Is There a Preferred Plane for Satellite Orbits?
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High School Can Planets Be Juggled Between Binary Stars?
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High School Why is there no atmosphere on moon
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High School What is the gravitational acceleration on Earth's surface?
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High School Liquid ocean in Uranus and Neptune
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High School Can we see our own galaxy out there due to gravitational effects?
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High School Comet Tails: A Mystery of Solar Forces
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High School Gaining Understanding of Force for Launching a Rocket/Satellite into Space
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High School Is a KBO the Size of Mars Considered a Planet?
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High School Gravity & Satellites: Moon's Influence on Earth Satellites
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High School Do Planets Orbit Closer to the Sun Over Time?
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High School Distance analogy - am I being accurate?
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High School Size of the Universe is 13.7 billion light years?
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High School Zodiac Constellations: Sun's Path Through the Year
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High School Outer space where there was no gravity
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High School Why do heavenly bodies rotate and what causes this rotation?
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High School Location of the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter
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High School Gravity in the Middle of a Planet: Puzzling Questions
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High School Is Mars Really Approaching Close to Earth on August 27th?
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High School What makes an asteroid an asteroid and not a comet
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High School Is the Spin of Earth Constant Throughout the Year?
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High School Giant mystery blob found near dawn of time
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High School Calculating Earth's # of Rotations Around the Sun
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High School Why Is the Earth Slowing Down?
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High School Photos of the our milky way galaxy
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High School Spin of planets, bigger means faster?
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High School Discovering the Mystery of Satellite Shadows: A Beginner's Guide
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High School How do astronauts communicate with Earth during space missions?
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High School Suggest topics for a 1-sem HS Astronomy course
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High School How does the Satellite manage to stay in earth's orbit?
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High School Looking at center of our galaxcy question.
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High School Plotting Elliptical Orbits for Beginners
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High School Can anyone explain the need for elipses?
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High School Which is Better for Stargazing: Sea Level or High Elevation?
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High School Can we travel back and forward in space?
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High School Understanding the Moon's Role in Tides
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High School Lightning in Space: Fact or Fiction?
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High School Looking for the Virgo constellation
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High School Why is the dust tail of a comet a tail?
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High School Making The Best of Light Polluted Skys
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High School Help w/Viewing Saturn and other stuff
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High School Answer: Declination of the Sun - Spring Equinox
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High School Titan - the next closest thing to Earth.
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High School Help with Jupiter and Saturn please
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High School Saturn's Rings: Why Are They Split?
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High School What Does Empty Space Really Mean?
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High School Please answer My Many New Bee questions on a Black hole.
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High School Brightness of ISS in Earth's shadow
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High School This first thing that Kills a human in Space?
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High School Planetary Alignment (nothing to do with astrology)
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High School Measurement of distance in space
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High School What Causes the Colorful Cross in Photos of Sirius?
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High School Is the bright star I saw in the west sky Venus or another planet?
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High School Planet Gravity: What Makes Objects Attract?
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High School Water on Enceladus - Cassini's Revealing Findings
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High School Direction of the gravtional force on the earth
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High School Why Aren't Meteors Heated by Friction?
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High School How gravity make planet to rotate?
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High School Beginner Astronomy: Telescope Advice & Tips
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High School Is 2009 Really the Year of Astronomy?
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High School Is the Sun Anchored? | Experiments & Feedback
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High School Creating oxygen(co2) out Of hydrogen
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High School May 10-12 1999 The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared
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High School What can be done about space junk
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High School How Far Are Stars? Calculating Distance to Earth
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High School Help me Super New bee many questions on energy-space relation and waves.
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High School What I see in sky - Milky Way, other stars
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High School Dropped popcorn kernel from space will it pop?
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High School Real time effects of light, light speed, and the sun?
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High School What is BIAS? Learn About CCDs With Randa
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High School Astronomy for AS extended project + tips
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High School IB extended essay in Astrophysics
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High School Can a Gelatinous Ooze Exist in the Vacuum of Space?
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High School How to measure the rotation period of the moon?
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High School What Makes a Good Starter Telescope for a College Astronomy Student?
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High School Meade NGC-70TC Refractor Telescope: Left-to-Right Inversion Explained
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High School Parachute in Space: Can It Deploy?
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High School How do satellites stay in orbit?
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High School Is the World Really Ending in 2012 as Some Predictors Claim?
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High School How Do Spacecrafts Gain Speed in Space?
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High School About the Earth's orbital velocity
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High School Earth's distance from the galactic center?
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High School Classification of Stella Spectra
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