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What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
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This article from the BBC describes some of the controversy in the theory that the mass extinction of the Cretaceous period was caused by a meteorite impact. The crater thought by…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog_summary.sht...
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Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs?
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This article from the NASA Astrobiology Institute raises some issues in the accepted theory that the mass extinction event of the late Cretaceous was caused by a meteorite impact.…
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/do-we-know-what-killed-the-dinosa...
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20 Ways the World Could End
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This article from Discover magazine overviews twenty ways the planet could experience mass extinction or worse. Examples include asteroid impact, alien invasion, and gamma-ray bursts.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-ways-the-world-could-en...
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Slash-Dot System Model
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The Slash-Dot Model simulates a massive line segment and massive point rotating about one another due to gravity in a 2-dimensional plane. The simulation tracks the obits of the line…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11347&DocID=23...
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Galileo's Moon Mountain
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The Galileo's Moon Mountain Model illustrates the method used by Galileo to measure the height of a mountain on the Moon. Using his improved telescope design, Galileo was able to see…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11196&DocID=22...
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Ptolemy/Copernicus/Tycho Model
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The Ptolemy/Copernicus/Tycho EJS Model illustrates the relationships between the systems of planetary astronomy developed by Claudius Ptolemy, Nicholas Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe.…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11200&DocID=22...
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Astronomical Parallax 3D
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This Astronomical Parallax 3D Model illustrates the phenomenon of annual stellar parallax in astronomy. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to the background…
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Stellar Aberration 3D
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The EJS Stellar Aberration 3D Model illustrates the phenomenon known as the aberration of starlight, first reported by James Bradley in 1729. Aberration occurs because light has a…
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Mars Science Laboratory - Curiosity Rover
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This NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech website provides a full range of information, images, video, activities, and up-to-date news about the Curiosity Mars rover. A series of…
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NASA's Mars Exploration Program: Science Overview
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This NASA website lays out NASA's four goals for the exploration of Mars. Each goal is described on a separate webpage--most with illustrations. The webpage for the fourth goal…
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/overview/index-science.html
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