Sentences with phrase «earth an hour later»

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And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

After Jeff Bezos» net worth soared Thursday to make him the richest person on the planet, Amazon's earnings report brought the tech giant back down to earth just hours later.

Today, just 20 short years later, he oversees the Christian Broadcasting Network which, from its $ 50 - million headquarters in Virginia Beach, incorporates four television stations, six radio stations, a missionary radio station, a recording company, a programming service which makes 24 - hour - a-day programming available to the more than 3,000 cable systems in the U.S.A. and Canada, a news network, a university, and a satellite earth station.

What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well seem, except that with the turn of the earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.

A few hours later, however, on - board safety systems turned the spacecraft toward Earth and re-established contact with mission control at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Relatives of the dead had paid up to $ 1,295 so that a gram or more of their beloved's ashes could take a ride aboard a rocket that briefly touched the face of the cosmos, peaking 73.5 miles above Earth, before dropping back down to the ground a half hour later.

About 18 hours later, an intense magnetic storm hit Earth.

Contour is programmed to send a signal back to Earth if it doesn't hear anything from mission control for 96 hours — that could happen as late as 10:09 p.m. EDT Monday.

When the burst reached Earth roughly 40 hours later, its magnetic field was oriented opposite to Earth's own magnetic field, which caused the fields to be attracted to each other and to interact strongly.

Since the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, low Earth orbit has become a junkyard, with about 110,000 hunks of old spacecraft one half inch or larger hurtling at speeds as high as 30,000 miles per hour.

Key support for that scenario came from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, which happened to detect the Tvashtar hot spot from Earth just 3 hours later.

There was neither sunrise nor sunset to mark the passage of time, yet he knew the iron planet whirled around its star so fast that every time he lay down for his 8 Earth - hours of shut - eye, he woke up two years later.

Landing will occur about four hours later, with confirmation on Earth at around 17:30 UTC (9:30 a.m. PST; 6:30 p.m. CET).

The trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth, making it a completely unrelated object.

Colliding at speeds up to 22,000 miles per hour (36,000 kilometers per hour), such a collision may have stripped most of the rocky mantle from the protoplanet that became Mercury with its iron - rich core, while a Mars - size protoplanet struck the early Earth off - center and created a spray of mostly mantle material that later accreted to form the Moon.

Only a few hours pass for her, but when she returns to Earth in True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season (HBO) it's a year later.

Patting for a shirtfront pocket that wasn't there, he fixed a mark on the sun and gauged the time later than normal by half an hour; summed the earth's indifferent swing as more proof of inconsequential man.

He experimented with motorizing bicycles and in January 1907 set a one - mile speed record of 136.7 miles per hour, for which he was hailed as the fastest man on earth; two years later, he would also be the fastest man aloft.

I can't find a single person who will affirm that all the effects within a 24 hour day, including massive temperature fluctuations between day and night, is due to one rotation of the planet and that these days never, ever fall out of step with rotations.The ideology which contemporaries have inherited from the late 17th century is that the Earth's rotation falls out of step with 24 hour days to the tune of 4 extra rotations in 4 years by virtue of an utterly stupid idea that the planet's daily and orbital motions can be modeled directly from a rotating celestial sphere of Ra / Dec observing.

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Warren first wrote about Earth Hour in late 2006, describing the idea of saving energy and increasing awareness by turning out the lights for one hour, starting in 2Hour in late 2006, describing the idea of saving energy and increasing awareness by turning out the lights for one hour, starting in 2hour, starting in 2007.

Three hours later, I exit the Exhibit Hall bursting with confidence, assured that my new position at the Northwest Earth Institute has me working with some of the most influential Change Agents in the Pacific Northwest.

Just before 9:30 and the official end of Earth Hour the Big Board hit 2545 MW, a 450 MW drop from a typical Toronto Saturday night in late March.