These local GMCs are arrayed in a ring in the neighborhood of the Sun coinciding with the Gould Belt.

Production of the dust would require collisions between asteroids in a population corresponding to the Kuiper Belt around the Sun.

Many credit Gretzky's arrival with putting non-traditional U. S. hockey markets on " the NHL map "; not only did California receive two more NHL franchises ( the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and San Jose Sharks ) during Gretzky's tenure in L. A., but his popularity in Southern California proved to be an impetus in the league establishing teams in other parts of the U. S. Sun Belt.

Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001.

The 11 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed primarily across the southern United States.

Locations of Sun Belt Conference member institutions for the 2012-2013 year.

The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976 with New Orleans, South Alabama, Georgia State, Jacksonville, Charlotte and South Florida.

After the 1990 – 91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt except WKU, South Alabama, Jacksonville, and incoming member Arkansas – Little Rock departed for other conferences.

The Sun Belt then merged with the American South Conference, made up of Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Southwestern Louisiana ( now Louisiana – Lafayette ), Texas – Pan American, New Orleans, Lamar, and UCF.

Although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name.

WKU joined the Sun Belt Conference for football in 2009 after its Board of Regents voted to upgrade the school's football program to Division I FBS.

On April 9, 2012, Georgia State, one of the founding members of the Sun Belt Conference, announced that it would be returning to the conference as a full member in 2013.

As part of the move, the football program will begin a transition from FCS to FBS in the 2012 season ; it will play a full Sun Belt schedule as a " transitional " FBS member in 2013, and become a full FBS member, with bowl eligibility, in 2014.

On May 2, 2012, Texas State announced it would leave the WAC after just one year and join the Sun Belt in July 2013 to begin play for the 2013-14 academic year.

At the press conference to announce Texas State's addition, Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson also hinted that more changes could be on the way for the conference.

The Sun Belt has 11 members for the 2012 – 2013 academic year.

The Hilltoppers left the GFC after the 2006 season, went through the two-year " reclassification " period mandated by the NCAA for schools moving from the FCS to the FBS, and became a football member of its all-sports conference, the Sun Belt Conference, in 2009.

The region has a higher employment-to-population ratio ( the percentage of employed people at least 16 years old ) than the Northeast, the West, the South, or the Sun Belt states as of 2011.

Developer Del E. Webb expanded Sun City over the years, and his company went on to build other retirement communities in the Sun Belt.

In the years before the World Cup circuit, the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley was one of the major ski races held in North America, along with the " Snow Cup " at Alta, the " Roch Cup " at Aspen Mountain, and the " Silver Belt " races at Sugar Bowl, north of Lake Tahoe.

It is also part of the Texas blackland prairies, which means it gets hot summers because it is in the Sun Belt.

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The Missouri State University Bears are members of the Missouri Valley Conference for all sports except football ( Missouri Valley Football Conference ), men's swimming and diving ( Sun Belt Conference ), and field hockey ( Mid-American Conference ).

UIU is the only NCAA Division II Athletics Program in the state of Iowa and a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ).

In 2005, Upper Iowa University was accepted into full membership of the NCAA Division II athletics and became a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ).

Although Campbell moved in 2011 from the Atlantic Sun Conference to the Big South Conference, which sponsors football, it did not join the Big South football conference and remains in the PFL.

The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ) is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States.

The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference was founded in 1932 as the Northern Teachers Athletic Conference.

In the spring of 1992 the NSIC was formed out of the merger of the NIC, the men's conference, and the women's Northern Sun Conference ( NSC ).

It is home to the Arizona State Sun Devils, of the Pacific-12 Conference.

In Penang, Malaysia, the Penang Philomatic Union had its premises at 120 Armenian Street in 1910, during the time when Sun spent more than four months in Penang, convened the historic " Penang Conference " to launch the fundraising campaign for the Huanghuagang Uprising and founded the Kwong Wah Yit Poh ; this house, which has been preserved as the Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang ( formerly called the Sun Yat Sen Penang Base ), was visited by President designate Hu Jintao in 2002.

Melching Field was built in 1999 and is recognized as one of the finer college baseball venues in the NCAA, having hosted numerous Atlantic Sun Conference championships and other baseball related tournaments and events.

Herbert Allen, Jr .' s annual summer executive retreat, Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference is a regular client of Friedman Memorial Airport.

Although they had the youngest average age of any WNBA team, the Liberty managed to win 19 regular season games in 2008, to defeat the Connecticut Sun in the first round of playoff action, and to come within two points of defeating the Detroit Shock in the third and last game of the Eastern Conference Finals.

What is needed, Philip Morrison writes in The Cornell Daily Sun ( October 26 ) is a discontinuity.

One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun And Wind On The Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds.

* Another group is the School of the Military that studied strategy and the philosophy of war ; Sunzi and Sun Bin were influential leaders.

An astronomical unit ( abbreviated as AU, au, a. u., or ua ) is a unit of length equal to exactly or approximately the mean Earth – Sun distance.

An equivalent definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular Newtonian orbit about the Sun of a particle having infinitesimal mass, moving with an angular frequency of radians per day ; or that length such that, when used to describe the positions of the objects in the Solar System, the heliocentric gravitational constant ( the product GM < sub >☉</ sub >) is equal to ()< sup > 2 </ sup > AU < sup > 3 </ sup >/ d < sup > 2 </ sup >.

This is because the distance between the Earth and the Sun is not fixed ( it varies between AU and AU ) and, when the Earth is closer to the Sun ( perihelion ), the Sun's gravitational field is stronger and the Earth is moving faster along its orbital path.

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.

1st century BCE ), shows how the distance to the Sun can be computed geometrically, using the different lengths of the noontime shadows observed at three places 1000 li apart and the assumption that the Earth is flat.

Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

The Sun Devil mascot is named Sparky.

In this case, the absolute magnitude is defined as the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were one astronomical unit ( AU ) from both the Sun and the observer.

Because the object is illuminated by the Sun, absolute magnitude is a function of phase angle and this relationship is referred to as the phase curve.