Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... orbit itself , an even slower effect that is not pe- riodic . The present annual variation in the distance between Earth and Sun is now about 1.6 percent , but it will change unevenly from nearly zero to some 5 percent over intervals of ...
... orbit itself , an even slower effect that is not pe- riodic . The present annual variation in the distance between Earth and Sun is now about 1.6 percent , but it will change unevenly from nearly zero to some 5 percent over intervals of ...
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... orbit , thus causing it to miss the Earth . Other tricks to accomplish the same result less destructively may also turn out to be as practical . For any deterrent to work well , the warning time , the time available for it to be brought ...
... orbit , thus causing it to miss the Earth . Other tricks to accomplish the same result less destructively may also turn out to be as practical . For any deterrent to work well , the warning time , the time available for it to be brought ...
Pàgina 90
... orbit the Sun , only those with the shorter periods are referred to as periodic . All comets have orbits with a large eccentricity , which means that at one end of their orbit they come close to the Sun and the Earth , but at the other ...
... orbit the Sun , only those with the shorter periods are referred to as periodic . All comets have orbits with a large eccentricity , which means that at one end of their orbit they come close to the Sun and the Earth , but at the other ...
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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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