Tag Archives: astronomy

quitos spacekill

By quitos on August 24, 2010.

0

The odds of being killed by space debris – 1 in 5 billion.

Continue Reading

quitos sunlight

By quitos on August 21, 2010.

0

The sunlight we see today started its journey in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago.

Continue Reading

quitos moon

By quitos on August 20, 2010.

0

Every year the moon moves about 3.8 cm further away from the Earth.

Continue Reading

quitos move

By quitos on August 19, 2010.

0

We are moving through space at the rate of 530 km per second.

Continue Reading

quitos god

By quitos on August 8, 2010.

0

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Continue Reading

quitos asterism

By quitos on June 16, 2010.

0

There are 88 official constellations. Non-official star patterns are referred to as asterisms.

Continue Reading

quitos zodiac

By quitos on June 13, 2010.

0

Your zodiac sign is defined by the constellation behind the sun on your birthday. So look for it 6 months later at midnight.

Continue Reading

quitos moons

By quitos on April 24, 2010.

0

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.

Continue Reading

quitos jupiter

By quitos on April 6, 2010.

0

Whether they ever find life there or not, Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

Continue Reading

quitos domination

By quitos on April 5, 2010.

0

I don’t think I’m alone when I say I’d like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

Continue Reading

quitos iceland

By quitos on March 2, 2010.

0

Iceland has the highest gravitational pull, everything weighs more over there.

Continue Reading

quitos weight

By quitos on February 24, 2010.

0

If you stand directly below the Moon, you weigh 0.0003% less.

Continue Reading

quitos moon-sun

By quitos on November 6, 2009.

0

The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but 400 times closer, thus we get a perfect eclipse.

Continue Reading

quitos clockwise

By quitos on November 1, 2009.

0

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Continue Reading

quitos ants

By quitos on September 4, 2009.

0

If you arranged all of the ants on earth, nose to tail, you could produce a line 126 light years long.

Continue Reading

loko saturn

By loko on May 26, 2009.

0

Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that is less dense than water. If you could build an imaginary gigantic bathtub, Saturn would float in it.

Continue Reading

vicke nasa-birds

By vicke on May 13, 2009.

0

If NASA sent birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.

Continue Reading