Bump!

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> I'll leave Q31 open.


> Q32: who was the 1st Hispanic woman to fly in space?

It's an easy one, if you know your Wikipedia ;)
1980 Cuba: Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
1985 Mexico: Rodolfo Neri
1998 Spain: Pedro Duque

> Q33:What was the name of the 1st rocket lauched from Cape Canaveral?

Wikipedia rules!: Bumper 8

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A30:I think it was the 3rd law that gave it away!
Most don't seem to remember the others.
You right Sir Isaak Newton.

I'll leave Q31 open.

Q32: who was the 1st Hispanic woman to fly in space?

Q33:What was the name of the 1st rocket lauched from Cape Canaveral?

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> Q30:Who stated these laws:
> 1)A body continues at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless
> acted upon by some net force.
> 2)The acceleration of a body is inversely proportional to it's mass, directly
> proportional to the net force. and in the same direction to the net force.
> 3)to every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.

A30: Sir Isaak Newton. That still stuck from 'physics for engineers' in the back of my brain ;-)

But Q30? need more time ;-)

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> I was unable to link to the sites that you gave.

Sorry, I wrote them on (german) MSWord, and the " was obviously wrong translated ;-)

Here they are again:
Karl himself and the unit.
As I just got up, gimme some time to answer ;-)

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In radio astronomy, the flux unit or jansky (abbreviation Jy) is a non-SI unit of electromagnetic flux equivalent to 10 - 26 watts per square metre per hertz.
I was unable to link to the sites that you gave. but 10 to the power of -26 is right. I think this has more to do with what charactors they can display and more so on how the person who added that typed it in.
Here is a link on the unit:
[url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictJ.html]Units at UNC <a>

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Q30:Who stated these laws:
1)A body continues at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by some net force.
2)The acceleration of a body is inversely proportional to it's mass, directly proportional to the net force. and in the same direction to the net force.
3)to every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.

Q31:Who was the 1st crewman to lose a camera in space?

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> good question Saenger!
> A28: Karl Jansky while working for Bell Labratories.
> A29: The jansky(Jy) is a unit of strengh(flux density) of radio sources.
> The jansky is equal to one-hundredth of one-trillionth of a trillionth of a
> watt per square meter per hertz.
> Note that in accordance with the SI (System International) notation, the unit
> jansky is not capitalized when written out but it is capitalized when in its
> symbol form (Jy). This convention is followed whenever a unit is named after a
> person.

Right!
Here are my (linkable) answers:

Q28: Who discovered when that the Milky Way galaxy emanates radio waves?
A28: Karl Jansky discovered it in 1932 for the Bell Labs as a result of a search for static interferences for radio voice transmissions.

Q29: What non-SI unit is named after him/her?
A28: In radio astronomy, the flux unit or jansky (abbreviation Jy) is a non-SI unit of electromagnetic flux equivalent to 10 - 26 watts per square metre per hertz. The name "Jansky" is named after the pioneering radio astronomer Karl Jansky.
The brightest natural radio sources have flux densities of the order of one jansky, which makes the jansky a suitable unit for radio astronomy.

I got the definition of the Jy from the Wikipedia, so if you're right with the values in the definition, please update they're article ;-)
I don't know myself. as it's not my personal field of higher education ;-)

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good question Saenger!
A28: Karl Jansky while working for Bell Labratories.
A29: The jansky(Jy) is a unit of strengh(flux density) of radio sources.
The jansky is equal to one-hundredth of one-trillionth of a trillionth of a watt per square meter per hertz.
Note that in accordance with the SI (System International) notation, the unit jansky is not capitalized when written out but it is capitalized when in its symbol form (Jy). This convention is followed whenever a unit is named after a person.

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> Q29: What kind of non-SI unit is named after him/her?

SI? Sports Illustrated? :)

> Saenger: would you like to field a question? I think u can come up with some.

OK, here you are:

Q28: Who discovered when that the Milky Way galaxy emanates radio waves?

Q29: What kind of non-SI unit is named after him/her?

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> > and what is the season in the northern
> > hemisphere at that point?
> Summer
> Sorry . Summer is not the right answer. I leave it open for another day.

Ooops. Make that winter. I was thinking Southern hemisphere, and why their seasons are more extreme.

Saenger: would you like to field a question? I think u can come up with some.

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> Johannes Kepler.
> Right. Kepler worked with Tycho Brahe until Tycho's death. He continued his
> and Tycho's work . Kepler published his results in 1906 in a book
> called "Astronomia Nova"(New Astronomy)in Latin.

That's not quite correct ;-)
It's 1609 , 1906 would have been a wee bit to late ;-)

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@ROM or anyone else.
How did the name of my thread get changed and how to change it?

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Welcome to the thread Misfit. I've been wondering when you'd show up.
> Q26:In earth's elliptical orbit what is the name of the point in our orbit
> where Earth is closest to the Sun
perigee
your right.I would have also accepted perigeion(greek) or perihelion

> and what is the season in the northern
> hemisphere at that point?
Summer
Sorry . Summer is not the right answer. I leave it open for another day.
> Q27:Who is credited with proveing that the planets move in elliptical orbits?
>
Johannes Kepler.
Right. Kepler worked with Tycho Brahe until Tycho's death. He continued his and Tycho's work . Kepler published his results in 1906 in a book called "Astronomia Nova"(New Astronomy)in Latin. Since it was published in a time when the Coppernican model was most accepted you can guess the contraversy it created in a time where Kepler's own mother was accused of witchcraft.
Tycho's family sued to get the instruments and books from Kepler. They got the instruments but Kepler kept the books. One book also states that Tycho's family also had Tycho's name enlarged bigger than Kepler's name on the Astronomia Nova
book.

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> Q27:Who is credited with proveing that the planets move in elliptical orbits?
>
Johannes Kepler

> Q26:In earth's elliptical orbit what is the name of the point in our orbit
> where Earth is closest to the Sun
perigee

> and what is the season in the northern
> hemisphere at that point?
Summer

reprint:
Q26:In earth's elliptical orbit what is the name of the point in our orbit where Earth is closest to the Sun and what is the season in the northern hemisphere at that point?

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Q26:In earth's elliptical orbit what is the name of the point in our where Earth is closest to the Sun and what is the season in the northern hemisphere at that point?

Q27:Who is credited with proveing that the planets move in elliptical orbits?

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