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A brief history of space
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Junk in Space
There's a lot of rubbish out there.... Collect space junk in orbit around the Earth in this fun game.
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Circular Motion and Satellite Motion
In depth site explaining circular motion and how satellites orbit the Earth.
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Global Positioning System
In June of 1993 the last of the 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit, completing a satellite network capable providing position data to locate you anywhere on Earth ...
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Astro Tour
Examine our solar system's planet's orbits from all angles with this interactive site.
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Tycho Brahe
A biography of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601), who made a remarkable star catalogue of over 1000 stars, far more than any astronomer before him. He proved that comets are not objects in ...
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Magnetic Field
Magnetic fields are produced by electric currents, which can be macroscopic currents in wires, or microscopic currents associated with electrons in atomic orbits. The magnetic field B is defined in ...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) provided a model of the universe in which the earth and all the other planets orbit around the sun and the earth acquired a daily rotation, but the sun itself was ...
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Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion
This site covers Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion including his theories on Elliptical Orbits and all three laws of planetary motion.
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