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[Lavonna Baldree]

I have really enjoyed reading all of twilight again through Edwards eyes. You did a wonderful job!!! If you ever decide to continue with twilight you should do new moon and eclipse through Jacobs eyes, people would love it and I am sure u van make it very interesting. Great work either way!!!

The fact that oxygen in rocks on the Earth and our moon share chemical signatures was very telling, Young said. Had Earth and Theia collided in a glancing side blow, the vast majority of the moon would have been made mainly of Theia, and the Earth and moon should have different oxygen isotopes. A head-on collision, however, likely would have resulted in similar chemical composition of both Earth and the moon.

Theia, which did not survive the collision (except that it now makes up large parts of Earth and the moon) was growing and probably would have become a planet if the crash had not occurred, Young said. Young and some other scientists believe the planet was approximately the same size as the Earth; others believe it was smaller, perhaps more similar in size to Mars.

A head-on collision was initially proposed in 2012 by Matija Ćuk, now a research scientist with the SETI Institute, and Sarah Stewart, now a professor at UC Davis; and, separately during the same year by Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute.

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Black, Emma. "Why doesn't Edward change Bella in New Moon, even though he wanted to in the first book?" edited by eNotes Editorial, 6 July 2019, -moon/questions/why-wont-edward-change-bella-mean-he-wanted-number-156801.

Edward never wanted to change Bella, not even in the first book. So,you are right, nothing has changed. Edward regards himself as a monster,a thing of nightmares, and he doesn't want Bella, who he loves, to become likethat. Creatures that have to kill and drink blood--it's not a pretty lifeto live. Because of the negative sides of being a vampire, he doesn'twant to change Bella at all. Or course he wants to be with her forever,but he realizes that changing Bella is irreversible; it is forever. Oncethat step is taken, they can't take it back. He mentions in book two thathe is worried about Bella's parents--they would grow and age, and she wouldalways be the same. Also, getting changed changes one's appearances too;he knew that her parents would notice. She would have to leave, and thatwould be abandoning her parents. It would also keep her from a normal,happy life. So those are all of the reasons that Edward, from thebeginning, doesn't want to change her, even though he wants to be with heralways. I hope that helped; good luck!

His idea of space-launch might sound somewhat juvenile to a 21st-century ear, but Edward Everett Hale deserves credit for imagining the incredible in 1869 and sending the first fictional satellite into space.

The story starts in college where the narrator claims, "most good things begin." The idea for the Brick Moon comes to a group of close friends discussing a mechanism for more accurately telling longitude.

According to their initial plan, the moon could be sent into a regular orbit along the prime meridian. Sailors would calculate their longitude based off the brick moon's celestial position at a given time and place, much the same way they use the North Star to figure latitude.

Since the story was written before the emergence of modern rocketry, the author needed to devise some ingenious or fantastic method for getting a hulking mass of brick off the ground. Hale's launch mechanism is a little of both.

To achieve orbit, the moon is situated to roll down a slope towards a pair of massive water-powered flywheels storing energy over months and months; when it contacts the edges of both flywheels at once, it is shot upwards into space. (If you're familiar with sports equipment, it's a similar concept to what we see in a JUGS machine.)

Hale emphasizes the joy they experience; all find fulfillment in the work. When the enormous globe of bricks is ready, it will roll down its prescribed path, touch the great spinning flywheels, and find its orbit.

The interior of the Brick Moon is not solid brick, but rather a hollow space through which smaller hollow brick spheres are arrayed and interconnected. This structure is meant to provide maximum support with minimal added weight. There are a total 13 'moonlets' clustered within the moon.

Over the winter, several of the families working on the moon decide to abandon their wood cabins to live inside the moonlets where it's warmer. Construction on the Brick Moon nears completion. But as it does, a natural accident causes the foundation of the moon's platform to sink six inches, and this is enough to start the moon rolling down its launch-path.

There follows a period of distress, during which the narrator searches the heavens fruitlessly for the brick moon, sure his friends have all perished. When he finally spies it through his telescope, he's surprised to see figures moving on its surface. These are in fact the families that were launched aboard the moon.

For instance, our Brick Lunarians are in fact alive at 5,109 miles above the Earth's surface. That's in the Exosphere, the final layer of Earth's atmosphere, essentially outer space. On their 200-foot diameter moon, they can stroll from summer to winter whenever they choose. They create their own soil and cultivate as much food as they and their animals need. Evolution on the Brick Moon for some reason happens at blinding speed, and it's never clear why.

We learn all this through the correspondence between the narrator and his Lunarian friends. On each side, observers with telescopes interpret the visual signals the other gives them. On the moon, they communicate by jumping and hopping in synchronization to spell words in Morse Code. From the Earth, they spell letters on the ground in black cambric cloth.

Much of this story is preposterous given what we now know about space, but it's not random or irrational. Though the author needed to invent much of the means and theory behind his plot, the cogency of the narrative lends it a realism that is meaningful, if not scientifically plausible.

Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find ailment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?

While the technical aspects of the story hold no real significance, "The Brick Moon" has ballast as an introduction to the human-made satellite, illustrating the concept of placing our own tools in orbit. Stories like this enter the zeitgeist, become the air breathed by young imaginers who grow into inventors, educators, engineers. These are the people who later lead us into space.

"The Brick Moon" was serialized in The Atlantic starting in 1869, before being anthologized in author Edward Everett Hale's short story collection, The Brick Moon, and Other Stories. You can get the short story collection for free through Project Gutenberg here. We in no way wish to claim credit for any of the images shown.

Noah Petro first became interested in Geology as a student at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, NY. It was while he was a student at Bates College that he was introduced to the field of planetary geology. Following his PhD work at Brown University he came to NASA Goddard as a NASA Post-Doc.

Noah's reasearch focuses on the evolution of the lunar crust, specifically the role of impact cratering in distributing material across the lunar surface. He uses remotely sensed data from multiple lunar missions, as well as data and samples collected by Apollo astronauts, to create a comprehensive picture of the Moons surface.

As Artemis mission project scientist, Noah Petro will coordinate and support the work of the various components of the Artemis science team, which includes the Artemis internal science team, the competed geology teams, participating scientists, and the payload teams, as well as provide a voice for the entire science team with the mission operations teams.

2001 - BS - Geology Department, Bates College, Lewiston, ME [Honors Thesis: Analysis of the Lunar Farside Crater Oppenheimer Pyroclastic Deposits Using Clementine Multispectral Data]
2003 - ScM - Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI
2007 - PhD - Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI. Advisor: Dr. Carle Pieters
[Dissertation: Provenance of Lunar Regolith Components: Redistribution of Material by Craters From the Heavy Bombardment Period Through the Copernican Era]

As part of AGU Narratives Storycorps series, Noah was interviewed about the differences between past lunar explorations and future lunar explorations, learning to not take rejections too seriously, and how the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was supposed to last two years, has been orbiting the moon for 13 years now.

Air Force Captain Edward J. Dwight, Jr. gets a hero's welcome from youngsters at Langdon Elementary School in Washington, D.C. in 1964. Charles Del Vecchio/Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption

This challenge excited most Americans, but many Black people resented money being poured into the space race that could have gone to aid the cause of civil rights and help impoverished Black communities. At the same time, the Soviets were pointing to the racial inequality in the U.S. to show the superiority of the Communist system.

In an attempt to counter the Soviets and to increase support for the space race among Black Americans, some began urging the administration to send a Black person to space. Edward R. Murrow, then Director of the U.S. Information Agency wrote a memo to the White House saying, "Why don't we put the first non-white man in space?"

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