Search results for "Space rock" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • layered intrusions where differentiated rock types often occur in layers ... ==Distribution in space and time== The majority of ultramafic rocks ...
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  • illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering is a term used for a number of processes that act ...
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  • the largest and most important group of rock-forming minerals. According ... by shock during meteorite impacts. Lack of space around the oxygen atoms makes ...
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  • music to classical, world, ethnic, folk, rock, electronic, pop, jazz and ... acoustic guitar as well. Although more rock than new age in genre, the ...
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  • famous for her work with the "Little Rock Nine"—the first nine ... later in Fordyce, Arkansas and moved to Little Rock. ==Work== ...
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  • impacts the Earth's surface. While in space they are called meteoroids ... *Heat Shield Rock - Found on Mars. *Orgueil meteorite - Object of a ...
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  • The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology, however, is often ...
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  • precipitous, cliff-like ridge of land or rock in the United States and Canada ... Studies of rock exposures and drillholes demonstrate that there is ...
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  • The breakdown products following chemical weathering of rock and sediment ... to a few negative degrees at night. As the rock heats up and expands by day ...
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  • agates may be found in various types of rock, they are especially common ... silica in solution percolated through the rock and deposited a siliceous ...
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  • Space manufacturing involves the production of manufactured goods ... Manufacturing in space has several potential advantages over Earth ...
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  • Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... " and lithos, which means "rock." It was first defined ...
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  • A space habitat, also called a space colony, orbital colony, space ... Several reasons have been given in support of space colonization. ...
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  • 1868 in Abri Cro-Magnon, the Cro-Magnon rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne ... as cave drawings), organization of living space, rituals (for example, burials ...
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  • crystallize in the orthorhombic system (space group Pbnm) with isolated ... * Rock (geology) * Silicate ==Notes== ==References== * Deer, W.A.; ...
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  • and part of the material ejected into space by the collision underwent ... or less of the crust consists of igneous rock added after formation of the ...
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  • totally dominating the extended cultural space that linked the European ... Several rock inscriptions and reliefs. Two equestrian reliefs at Naqsh ...
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  • notation and do sight-reading. In jazz, rock, and many popular music genres ... A-Team that played on numerous country and rock hits of the era, the two groups ...
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  • that lichen can even endure extended exposure to space. ... impossible for most plants, such as bare rock, sterile soil or sand, and ...
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  • Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine ... in the Earth's mantle (see Igneous rock). The crustal portions of ...
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