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.

The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976.

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.

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 ).

Aberration is usually larger than a planet's light-time correction except when the planet is near quadrature ( 90 ° from the Sun ), where aberration drops to zero because then the Earth is directly approaching or receding from the planet.

Sun Yat-sen's career was at its lowest point then, with most of his old Revolutionary Alliance comrades refusing to join him in the exiled Chinese Revolutionary Party.

His father moved his family to France and then Germany while Sun Yat-sen was struggling against contentious warlords in China.

One of his most memorable exchanges on HIGNFY occurred when he scathingly joked to fellow guest Piers Morgan that the Daily Mirror was now, thanks to Morgan ( then its editor ), almost as good as The Sun.

More precisely, a full moon occurs when the geocentric apparent ( ecliptic ) longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180 degrees ; the Moon is then in opposition with the Sun .< ref >

Since there are many stars older than the Sun, or since intelligent life might have evolved earlier elsewhere, the question then becomes why the galaxy has not been colonized already.

It mainly heats up because the Sun warms the ground inside, which then warms the air in the greenhouse.

Doing this by brute force – accelerating in the shortest route to the destination and then, if it is farther from the Sun, decelerating to match the planet's speed – would require an extremely large amount of fuel.

Chiang Ching-kuo then arrested Sun Li-jen, charging him of conspiring with the American CIA of plotting to overthrow Chiang Kaishek and the Kuomintang, Sun was placed under house arrest in 1955.

In April 2009, Oracle Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase Sun Microsystems, then owners of MySQL copyright and trademark.

The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a " Cake of Light " ( a type of bread that serves as the host ) to Ra ( i. e. the Sun ) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood ( either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed its young ) and then consuming it with the words, " There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: Do what thou wilt!

In real-time strategy ( RTS ) game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, a number of the vehicles of the Empire of the Rising Sun are referred to as mecha, since they are capable of transforming from ground or sea units to aerial fighters, granting them additional flexibility in battle but making them closer to robots then to true mecha.

In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

In 1956, the second was redefined in terms of a year ( the period of the Earth's revolution around the Sun ) for a particular epoch because, by then, it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation on its own axis was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time.

On October 27, 2003, the Chargers wore their navy pants with their navy jersey for a Monday Night Football game versus the Miami Dolphins that was played at Sun Devil Stadium, then the home of the Arizona Cardinals, due to wildfires in southern California.

However, after a narrow 21-20 win against the Giants, the Cowboys regained their dominating form, trouncing the Arizona Cardinals ( who were playing their home games at Sun Devil Stadium ) 37-13 on Christmas night at Arizona as part of Monday Night Football, and then cruising through the playoffs with convincing wins against the Eagles and the Packers.

Divide the distance from the Sun to Saturn into 100 parts ; then Mercury is separated by four such parts from the Sun, Venus by 4 + 3 = 7 such parts, the Earth by 4 + 6 = 10, Mars by 4 + 12 = 16.

Let the distance from the Sun to Saturn be taken as 100, then Mercury is separated by 4 such parts from the Sun.

In theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth ( Sanat Kumara ), and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to the human race.