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Some living megalithic traditions are found on the island of Sumba and Nias in
Indonesia.
These asteroids may be remnants of the protoplanetary disk, and in this region the
accretion of planetesimals into planets during the formative period of the Solar
System was prevented by large gravitational perturbations by Jupiter.
Each time a comet swings by the Sun in its orbit, some of its ice vaporizes and
meteoroids will be shed.
Few species of millipede are at all widespread; they have very poor dispersal
abilities, depending as they do on terrestrial locomotion and humid habitats.
[Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more
accurately called a thermoscope), in or before 1603.
Atmospheric entry \n', The visible phenomenon due to the passage of an asteroid or
meteoroid through the atmosphere is called a meteor.
== Applications ===== Astronomy ===For centuries, spherical trigonometry has been
used for locating solar, lunar, and stellar positions, predicting eclipses, and
describing the orbits of the planets.
\n', 'Because ectotherms depend on environmental conditions for body temperature
regulation, as a rule, they are more sluggish at night and in early mornings.
The bristly millipedes (order Polyxenida) lack both an armoured exoskeleton and
odiferous glands, and instead are covered in numerous bristles that in at least one
species, Polyxenus fasciculatus, detach and entangle ants.
Primates such as capuchin monkeys and lemurs have been observed intentionally
irritating millipedes in order to rub the chemicals on themselves to repel
mosquitoes.
Early thermometers from the time of Galileo measured the expansion and contraction
of air.
The pathogens responsible for many infectious diseases are microbes and, as such,
are the target of hygiene measures.
A few species of parthenogenetic centipedes are known.
The earliest recorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to ancient Mesopotamia
and Egypt in the 2nd millennium BC.
Animals Other examples of anthropomorphism include the attribution of human traits
to animals, especially domesticated pets such as dogs and cats.
The first true asteroid to be photographed in close-up was 951 Gaspra in 1991,
followed in 1993 by 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl, all of which were imaged by the
Galileo probe en route to Jupiter.
References External links Asteroid City at IMDb||| THIS NEW ARTICLE |||Asteroid
mining is the hypothetical exploitation of materials from asteroids and other minor
planets, including near-Earth objects.
The Earth's climate may be dependent upon microbes that eat rock beneath the sea
floor, according to new research.
Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, are asteroids that have orbits that pass close to
that of Earth.
\n, 'Hubble is the only telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts.
||| THIS = NEW ARTICLE |||Hindgut fermentation is a digestive process seen in
monogastric herbivores, animals with a simple, single-chambered stomach.
Some endothermic (warm-blooded) animals hibernate, usually during the winter, when
food is short.
The megalithic structures of Malta are believed to be the oldest in Europe.
As of September 2016, there are 711 known asteroids with a value exceeding US$100
trillion.
In 1675, Huygens, who was receiving a pension from Louis XIV, invented a
chronometer that employed a balance wheel and a spiral spring for regulation,
instead of a pendulum, opening the way to marine chronometers and modern pocket
watches and wristwatches.
As of 2021, less than 1 gram of asteroid material has been successfully returned to
Earth from space.
\n, 'So far only four impact events have been successfully predicted, all from
innocuous 2-5m diameter asteroids and detected a few hours in advance.
Shops holding stocks of unsold thermometers had to withdraw them from sale; mercury
thermometers purchased before this date could be used without legal implications.
The three largest objects in the asteroid belt, Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta, grew to
the stage of protoplanets.
\n', 'They can easily be told apart from centipedes because centipedes move faster,
have only have one pair of legs per segment, and eat animals instead of just
plants, although a very small amount of millipede species are omnivores, feeding on
insects, earthworms, or snails.
Many megaliths were used to figure out the dates of the solstices and equinoxes.
=== Micronesian megaliths ===Megalithic structures in Micronesia reach their most
developed form on the islands of Pohnpei and Kosrae in the Eastern Caroline
Islands.
With this in mind, the identity upon which trigonometry is based turns out to be
the Pythagorean Theorem.
Also in 2018, physicist Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to the Big
Questions, considered an asteroid collision to be the biggest threat to the planet.
Absolute monarchies include Brunei, Eswatini, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City and
the individual emirates composing the United Arab Emirates, which itself is a
federation of such monarchies – a federal monarchy.
Given that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in the solar
system, Venusian life, if it exists, is most likely limited to extremophile
microorganisms that float in the planet\'s upper atmosphere, where conditions are
almost Earth-like.
Commonly used in the context of megalithic monuments, the most famous trilithons
are those at Stonehenge and those found in the Megalithic Temples of Malta.
A polyextremophile is an organism that qualifies as an extremophile under more than
one category.
Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the first monarch proclaiming himself as an
embodiment of the nation, rather than as a divinely appointed ruler; this
interpretation of monarchy is germane to continental constitutional monarchies.
Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution
from around 10,000 BC.
Many of these mites are believed to be phoretic rather than parasitic, which means
that they use the millipede host as a means of dispersal.
While today most chronographs are in the form of wristwatches, in the early 20th
century pocket chronographs were very popular.
Tarot divination can also be considered a form of bibliomancy, with the main
difference that the cards (pages) are unbound.
It was once thought that collisions of asteroids form a major component of the
zodiacal light.
The zoomorphic style of decoration was used to decorate small objects by warrior-
herdsmen, whose economy was based on breeding and herding animals, supplemented by
trade and plunder.
The sizes of asteroids varies greatly; the largest, Ceres, is almost 1,000 km (600
mi) across and massive enough to qualify as a dwarf planet.
Of 9,000 asteroids searched in the NEO database, these twelve could all be brought
into an Earth-accessible orbit by changing their velocity by less than 500 meters
per second (1,800 km/h; 1,100 mph).
Although they can be seen as being distinct, the Cyclopean wall-builders share
several features with the Hesiodic Cyclopes: both groups are craftsmen of
supernatural skill, possessing enormous strength, who lived in primordial times.
However, mercury is a toxic heavy metal, and mercury has only been used in clinical
thermometers if protected from breakage of the tube.
Practical celestial navigation usually requires a marine chronometer to measure
time, a sextant to measure the angles, an almanac giving schedules of the
coordinates of celestial objects, a set of sight reduction tables to help perform
the height and azimuth computations, and a chart of the region.
The seventh method of hydromancy was cited by Clemens Alexandrinus who cited that
women of Germany watched the whirls and courses of rivers for prognostic
interpretations.
In Africa one traditional form of geomancy consists of throwing handfuls of dirt in
the air and observing how the dirt falls.
In Korea, geomancy takes the form of interpreting the topography of the land to
determine future events and or the strength of a dynasty or particular family.
The springs are the site of occurrence of certain extremophile microorganisms,
which are capable of surviving in extremely hot environments.
In a fifth method of hydromancy mysterious words are pronounced over a glass of
water, then observations are made of its spontaneous ebullience.
History of pyromancy Due to the importance of fire in society in prehistory and its
continued importance within civilizations, it is quite likely that pyromancy was
one of the earlier forms of divination, arising independently in many civilizations
around the world.
An acidophile is an extremophile organism which thrives in extremely acidic
conditions such as ________
Some predatory carnivorous gastropods include, for example: Cone shells,
Testacella, Daudebardia, Ghost slug and others.
Desert lizards are ectotherms and so unable to metabolically control their
temperature but can do this by altering their location.
The appearance and internal structure of pseudopods are used to distinguish groups
of amoebae from one another.
A ruminant is an ungulate that eats and digests plant-based food such as grass.
But they have three-chambered stomachs (while others are monogastric) as opposed to
ruminant stomachs which have four compartments.
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Another feature of ruminants is the large ruminal storage capacity that gives them
the ability to consume feed rapidly and complete the chewing process later.
Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636) lists geomancy with other methods of
divination – including pyromancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, and necromancy – without
describing its application or methods.
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\n', In Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone, the narrator Gabriel Betteredge
routinely practices bibliomancy using the pages of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
The narrator of Graham Greene\'s Travels With My Aunt recounts that his late father
used to practice Bibliomancy with the writings of Walter Scott : Once, when he was
suffering severely from Constipation, he opened Rob Roy at random and read out Mr
Owen entered.
Both Judaism and Islam reject an anthropomorphic deity, believing that God is
beyond human comprehension.
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were also known to use geomancy for comic relief.
It is this distinction that often makes the term poikilotherm more useful than the
vernacular cold-blooded, which is sometimes used to refer to ectotherms more
generally.
Some are lithotrophs that oxidize sulphur to create sulfuric acid as an energy
source, thus requiring the microorganism to be adapted to very low pH (i. e. , it
is an acidophile as well as thermophile).
Some forms of divination are much older than the Middle Ages, like haruspication,
while others (such as megapolisomancy or coffee-based tasseomancy) originated in
the 20th and 21st centuries.
The larval shell of a gastropod is called a protoconch.
The only recorded usage of millipedes as food by humans comes from the Bobo people
of Burkina Faso in West Africa, who consume boiled, dried millipedes belonging to
the families Gomphodesmidae and Spirostreptidae in tomato sauce.
Because of this, some people think asteroids is not a good name, and think that the
name planetoid (like a planet) would be a better name.
The Easily Recoverable Object (ERO) subclass of Near-Earth asteroids are considered
likely candidates for early mining activity.
=== European megaliths ===The most common type of megalithic construction in Europe
is the portal tomb—a chamber consisting of upright stones (orthostats) with one or
more large flat capstones forming a roof.
\n', 'Axopodia are thin pseudopods and are enveloped by cytoplasm.
In 2005, a microscope capable of detecting a single molecule was described as a
teaching tool.
This image flipping results in a normal dextral gastropod appearing to be a rare or
abnormal sinistral one.
Paleozoic and Mesozoic Two 10-kilometre sized asteroids are now believed to have
struck Australia between 360 and 300 million years ago at the Western Warburton and
East Warburton Basins creating a 400-kilometre impact zone.
The abomasum is the direct equivalent of the monogastric stomach, and digesta is
digested here in much the same way.
\n', '\n', '\n', '== References ==||| THIS = NEW ARTICLE |||A micro-organism or
microbe is an organism which is microscopic, which means so small that people
cannot see them with the naked eye.
The major advance of Neolithic 1 was true farming.
Mesolithic tools are small tools produced by chipping, and are hunter-gatherer
tools, often arrowheads and points.
In the times before electronics, mechanical timepieces called marine chronometers
were developed to a very high degree of accuracy for use in maritime navigation.
This property is the basis for a pyrometer or infrared thermometer and
thermography.
The science of millipede biology and taxonomy is called diplopodology: the study of
diplopods.
The first known practical telescopes were refracting telescopes with glass lenses
and were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century.
Not until the 18th century did John Harrison come up with a marine chronometer that
significantly improved on the stability of the hourglass at sea.
\n', Asteroid size comparisons (video; 2:40) on YouTube||| THIS NEW ARTICLE |||An
impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable
effects.
As of June 2016, 14,464 near-Earth asteroids are known and approximately 900–1,000
have a diameter of over one kilometer.
Other languages prefer planetoid (Greek for planet-like), and this term is
occasionally used in English especially for larger minor planets such as the dwarf
planets as well as an alternative for asteroids since they are not star-like.
The Babylonian necromancers were called manzazuu or sha\'etemmu, and the spirits
they raised were called etemmu.
It took about 150 years of optical development before the compound microscope was
able to provide the same quality image as van Leeuwenhoek's simple microscopes, due
to difficulties in configuring multiple lenses.
However, Psyche was given an iconic symbol as well, as were a few other asteroids
discovered over the next few years (see chart above).
From the astrobiological perspective, asteroid prospecting could provide scientific
data for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
Meteoroid sizes can be calculated from their mass and density which, in turn, can
be estimated from the observed meteor trajectory in the upper atmosphere.
Animal life is classified into groups called phyla, of which there are at least
thirty.
The sensory organs of the scaly-foot gastropod include statocysts surrounded by the
oesophageal gland, each statocyst with a single statolith.
All mature lithobiomorph centipedes have 15 leg-bearing segments.
Judaism\'s rejection of an anthropomorphic deity grew during the Hasmonean period
(circa 300 BCE), when Jewish belief incorporated some Greek philosophy.
Anthropomorphism may be beneficial to the welfare of animals.
It is possible to protect humans against some harmful microbes by storing and
preparing food properly, cleaning the teeth, washing hands, and by avoiding close
contact with ill people.
However, the term osteomancy might be more appropriate, referring to divination
using bones.
In contrast, endothermic animals maintain nearly constant high operational body
temperatures largely by reliance on internal heat produced by metabolically active
organs (liver, kidney, heart, brain, muscle) or even by specialized heat producing
organs like brown adipose tissue (BAT).