"After hundreds of years orbiting the sun, they will enter our atmosphere at 90, 000 mph, burning up 50 miles above Earth's surface, " NASA said.
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All organic crop rotations contain three to four years of no ploughing because grass leys use the sun's energy to fix nitrogen for subsequent crops in place of oil-based artificial fertiliser.
Viewed from a distance of ten light-years, the sun's side-to-side wobble due to Jupiter causes its position to change by 1.6 thousandths of an arcsecond.
Climate scientists have already looked at changes related to Sun spot activity - a cycle of approximately 11 years - and long-term changes in the Sun's brightness, which has a cycle that lasts for centuries.
Kathy Banks from The Sunbed Association said the statistics were alarming as their own members and most others salons would not permit anyone under the age of 16 years to use sun beds.
His face, the little that wasn't covered by his thick beard, seemed unaffected by his years of hardship and overexposure to the desert wind and sun.
Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.
Fishing boats battered by years of storms, saltwater and sun were strewn about the beach like stranded jellyfish.
John Carroll was his top editor at the Sun for six of those years.
With respect to the local players, several of the Chinese car companies have had their moments in the sun over the past several years.
Three years ago, guest writer Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times did a fun piece for Forbes.com on heroes and goats in the baseball world.
Middle Tennessee lost in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament after winning the regular season title, which in previous years might have been enough to knock them out of the NCAAs.
Seven billion light years away and with two million billion times the mass of our Sun, the cluster was nicknamed "El Gordo" - "the Fat One" in Spanish.
In his 46 years at the Chicago Sun-Times, he reviewed thousands of films.
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Now, just two years away from 2000, the sun provides less than 1 percent of the U.S. energy supply.
People now live about 15 years longer than when the first Sun City was built, but most of the surge in numbers by 2010 will come from the 76m members of the baby-boom generation, now moving towards retirement.
Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.
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The problem is due in part to the demise of the many dot-coms that bought Sun servers in recent years.
If Oracle manages to squeeze more profit out of Sun in coming years than it and others first projected, of course, the stock may support a bigger multiple than it currently appears to merit.
After 18 years at the helm, Walter was ousted from his position as chairman and chief executive of Sun Hung Kai in 2008, after a dispute erupted between him and his brothers, Thomas and Raymond, over control of the company.
Ms Lane, who died in 2009, ran the Sun Inn for 74 years and was still at its helm at the age of 94.
Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.
Her page in The Sun has been running for 25 years, and is the second most read part of the newspaper.
The essence of China's thinking about cyber warfare is the concept of shi, he says, first introduced in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" about 2, 500 years ago.
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Viewed from ten light-years away, the sun's side-to-side astrometric wobble due to the effect of the earth is just one millionth of an arcsecond, or a twentieth of the tiniest angle that the Keck will be able to measure.
The latter are reminiscent in scale to the putative nuclear-fusion reactors, said to mimic processes in stars, e.g. the sun, of which a working model is not expected for at least another 60 years.
The sun has been in a particularly prolonged and deep solar minimum for the last couple of years, with fewer sunspots and solar storms erupting on its surface.
Scientists are eager to examine the asteroids because they formed in the same primordial cloud of gas and stellar material that collapsed to make the sun and the planets about 4.5 billion years ago.
The play stars Ian McDiarmid - returning to the RSC after an absence of 27 years - as the 17th Century scientist who challenges the Catholic church with his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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The research team's temperature analysis showed that summer temperatures in the Arctic, in step with the reduced energy from the Sun (related to an approximately 21, 000-year cyclical wobble in Earth's tilt relative to the Sun), cooled at an average rate of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per thousand years.
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