Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... miles ( about 40,000 kilometers ) , we spin right along with it at a speed of 25,000 / 24 , or just over 1,000 miles ( 1,600 kilometers ) per hour . But this speed decreases with distance from the equator ; closer to the pole , it is ...
... miles ( about 40,000 kilometers ) , we spin right along with it at a speed of 25,000 / 24 , or just over 1,000 miles ( 1,600 kilometers ) per hour . But this speed decreases with distance from the equator ; closer to the pole , it is ...
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... miles ) , which corresponds to a diameter of about 10 kilometers ( 6 miles ) for the impacting body . Ejecta with microdi- amonds , spherules , and abundant iridium have been found around it . Its age coincides exactly with that of the ...
... miles ) , which corresponds to a diameter of about 10 kilometers ( 6 miles ) for the impacting body . Ejecta with microdi- amonds , spherules , and abundant iridium have been found around it . Its age coincides exactly with that of the ...
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... miles ( 100 kilometers ) in diameter exist , and three hundred are larger than 6 miles ( 10 kilometers ) , the size of the despoiler of the dinosaur's world . Most orbit where they belong , in the asteroid belt , and it is unlikely that ...
... miles ( 100 kilometers ) in diameter exist , and three hundred are larger than 6 miles ( 10 kilometers ) , the size of the despoiler of the dinosaur's world . Most orbit where they belong , in the asteroid belt , and it is unlikely that ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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