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Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer series posited an instantaneous communication device powered by rare, ' Black Crystal ' from the planet Ballybran.

Ballybran and .
Ballybran is a toxic world where the inhabitants must form a symbiotic relationship with a spore in order to survive.

and planet
When the angular velocity of this co-rotating frame is not constant, that is, for non-circular orbits, other fictitious forces the Coriolis force and the Euler force will arise, but can be ignored since they will cancel each other, yielding a net zero acceleration transverse to the moving radial vector, as required by the starting assumption that the vector co-rotates with the planet.
# if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems the sooner the better ; and
It has been estimated that about half of the Earth's mature tropical forests between 7. 5 million and 8 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 2. 9 million to 3 million sq mi ) of the original 15 million to 16 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 5. 8 million to 6. 2 million sq mi ) that until 1947 covered the planet have now been destroyed.
" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.
These structures are somewhat analogous to high-and low-pressure cells in Earth's atmosphere, but they have a very different structure latitudinal bands that circle the entire planet, as opposed to small confined cells of pressure.
The Morning Star is, in fact, identical to the Evening Star both are the planet Venus.
By ordering the solids correctly octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, cube Kepler found that the spheres could be placed at intervals corresponding ( within the accuracy limits of available astronomical observations ) to the relative sizes of each planet ’ s path, assuming the planets circle the Sun.
Kryptonite is a fictional material from the Superman mythos the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman's home planet of Krypton.
Still, in the book Protector ( 1973 ), the Martians are brutally exterminated by a large water asteroid deliberately hurled at the planet, raising the water content in the atmosphere to a degree deadly to them, by Jack Brennan, a human who had turned into a Pak Protector a creature completely devoted to protecting its descendants, or sometimes his entire species, and is unreasonably xenophobic towards anybody else.
Each planet is a kind of petri dish in which a particular human culture derived to some extent from a culture known historically on Earth thrives and changes.
* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator the word hemisphere literally means “ half sphere ”.
The planet's low density ( about 40 % that of Earth ) suggests that the planet may have a substantial component of low-density gas possibly hydrogen or steam.
At a specific velocity called escape velocity, again dependent on the firing height and mass of the planet, an open orbit such as ( E ) results a parabolic trajectory.
Perhaps the best known was the planet of The Man Who Counts Anderson adjusted its size and composition so that humans could live in the open air but flying intelligent aliens could evolve, and he explored consequences of these adjustments.
Picard and Data realize that Soran is altering the path of the ribbon by collapsing stars, and determine that Soran will attempt to reenter the Nexus on Veridian III by destroying its star and, by extension, a heavily-populated planet in the system.
Dust would collect in orbits that have mean-motion resonances with this planet where their orbital periods form integer fractions with the period of the planet producing the resulting clumpiness.

and Anne
All three Brontë sisters worked as governesses or teachers, and all experienced problems controlling their charges, gaining support from their employers, and coping with homesickness but Anne was the only one who persevered and made a success of her work.
* Soon Anne Egerman, Frederik Egerman and Henrik Egerman
* Every Day a Little Death Countess Charlotte Malcolm and Anne Egerman
* Two Fairy Tales Henrik and Anne Egerman ( cut for time )
She and her surviving siblings Branwell, Emily, and Anne – created their own literary fictional worlds, and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of these imaginary kingdoms.
Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Alarm amongst Protestants increased when his wife, Mary of Modena, gave birth to a son James Francis Edward in June 1688, for the son would, unlike Mary and Anne, be raised a Roman Catholic.
Finally, in 1547, he settled in Salon-de-Provence in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children three daughters and three sons.
The region also includes the castle in Brzeg, built during the reign of the Piast dynasty pearl of the Silesian Renaissance, the Franciscan monastery on top of Saint Anne Mountain, as well as the mediæval defence fortifications in Paczkow ( referred to as the Polish Carcassonne ).
She began to publish poems under different pseudonyms Ruth Stanhope, Edgar Stanhope, and Anne Singleton.
* Anne / Nancy Steele Lucy Steele's elder, socially inept, and less clever sister.
* Anne of Brittany ( 1477 – 1514 ) they were married by proxy in Rennes on 18 December 1490, but the contract was dissolved by the Pope in early 1492, by which time Anne had already been forced by the French King, Charles VIII ( the fiancé of Maximilian's daughter Margaret of Austria ) to repudiate the contract and marry him instead.
* The Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34, St Anne Soho ( 1966 ) full text online
* Sarah Morris ( played by Anne Bobby ) Mo's wife and high school sweet heart, mother of two less than handsome children.
Cinematically, Anne of the Thousand Days took twenty years to reach the screen because its themes adultery, illegitimacy, incest were then unacceptable to the U. S. motion picture production code.
They were forced to rely more and more on support from the Whigs, and particularly from the Whig Junto Lords Somers, Halifax, Orford, Wharton and Sunderland whom Anne disliked.
The following year, in conjunction with this boxed set, TSR published a trilogy of World of Greyhawk Adventure ( WGA ) modules by Richard & Anne Brown WGA1 Falcon's Revenge, WGA2 Falconmaster and WGA3 Flames of the Falcon set in the city and centered around a mysterious villain called The Falcon.
Henry and Anne became good friends she was an honorary member of the King's family and was referred to as " the King's Beloved Sister ".
Edward of Warwick was described as " simple-minded ", and after Anne died, Richard promptly named another nephew John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln as his heir presumptive.

and McCaffrey's
* Ireta A planet in Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates series, inhabited by both people and dinosaurs, and so also called Dinosaur Planet – the name of the novel in which it first appears.
* Pern A planet pelted by a deadly spore ( called Thread ), capable of eating anything but rock and metal, for periods of fifty years every two to four centuries in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels.

and Crystal
David Crystal ( 1988: p. 265 )
* Chemistry: Molecular theory Kinetic theory of gases Molecular orbital theory Valence bond theory Transition state theory RRKM theory Chemical graph theory Flory-Huggins solution theory Marcus theory Lewis theory ( successor to Brønsted – Lowry acid – base theory ) HSAB theory Debye – Hückel theory Thermodynamic theory of polymer elasticity Reptation theory Polymer field theory Møller – Plesset perturbation theory Density Functional Theory Frontier molecular orbital theory Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory Baeyer strain theory Quantum theory of atoms in molecules Collision theory Ligand field theory ( successor to Crystal field theory ) Variational Transition State Theory Benson group increment theory Specific ion interaction theory

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