Afriend of yours who has not taken astronomy sees a meteor shower (she calls it a bunch of shooting stars). the next day she confides in you that she was concerned that the stars in the big dipper (her favorite star pattern) might be the next ones to go. how would you put her mind at ease?

Suppose that a comet that was seen in 563 a.d. by chinese astronomers was spotted again in year 1951. assume the time between observations is the period of the comet and take its eccentricity as 0.986. what are (a) the semimajor axis of the comet's orbit and (b) its greatest distance from the sun?

Organelles are 1. responsible for producing power for the cell 2. tiny structures in the cell that carry out the cell's activities 3. responsible for digestion in the cell 4. found outside of the membrane

Find the magnetic field a distance r from the center of a long wire that has radius a and carries a uniform current per unit area j in the positive z direction.