Earth speed through space: from daily spin to galaxy drift
The Earth spins at about 1037.4 miles per hour at the equator and travels the Sun’s orbit at roughly 66 700 miles per hour. The solar system orbits the galaxy at about 220 kilometers per second, while the Milky Way itself moves toward the solar apex in Hercules. Some estimates hint at a broader drift toward the Southern Cross at speeds over a trillion miles per hour.
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Dalaxy
Dictionary of Astronomy
Moon Traverses Sky During Midnight Observation
Astronomer-Emeritus KL Franklin notes the Moon will move across the sky near Aldsharan around midnight. With a good telescope observers in the United States may see faint stars occulted by the Moon as it crosses a star-cleared path.
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Ney
Fragmented Science Note on Absolute Zero Movement
A partial OCR fragment discusses absolute zero and Ceasenoma movement with unclear context and missing details. The readable portion hints at a theoretical or experimental concept but lacks full facts, names, or dates to identify a clear event or subject.
Record chill near absolute zero by Wieman Cornell
Washington readers learn how Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell in Boulder Colorado created a near absolute zero state by cooling 2 000 rubidium atoms to a new form of matter called a Bose Einstein condensate using laser cooling magnetic traps and evaporative warming. This breakthrough challenges the third law and the belief that absolute zero is unattainable.
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Dad Wieman
Eric Cornell
Wieman
Cornell
Boulder
Colo
Wiemar
University of Colorado
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Colorado
Albert Einstein
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