Entertainment: Spirits In The Sky

Spirits In The Sky

Written by Chris Meehan

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Similarly, Marc Bolan?s music, which is both powerful and durable in its own right (consider: Midnight, Buick Mackane and Children of repparttar Revolution), has had its longevity enhanced by his tragic end, in a car crash, at repparttar 109913 age of 30.

Think of Eva Cassidy and Nick Drake, whose gentle, lyrical, profound and poignant songs evoke repparttar 109914 memories of two unique creative talents. Cassidy has bequeathed a profound artistic legacy. Her songs cover themes of love, loss, transcendence and redemption and are drawn from diverse musical traditions. ?Eva by Heart? will ensure her spirit lives on.

Finally, Nick Drake?s three albums (Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon), although acclaimed by critics and fellow musicians, failed to find a broad audience during his lifetime ? which served to nourish his extreme clinical depression. However, repparttar 109915 growth in his posthumous popularity has established him as a significant figure in contemporary British popular music. A number of today?s musicians, including Badly Drawn Boy, Blur?s Graham Coxon and REM guitarist Peter Buck, cite him as an important influence.

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Chris Meehan is the features editor at www.Just-Jammin.com. As well as a freelance writer on many subjects

Satellite Orbits

Written by Gary Davis

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satellite has a very special orbit. Not only does it orbit repparttar 109912

earth, but repparttar 109913

plane of

orbit changes as well. It has to do this because each day repparttar 109915

earth moves a bit through space around. After 3 months, repparttar 109916

earth has moved 90 degrees of its orbit around repparttar 109917

sun. If

satellites orbit wouldn’t have moved with it, it would show up 6 hours later than planned. (Actually repparttar 109919

earth spins around its axis in approx. 23 hours, 56 minutes and 3 seconds and not in 24 hours. Because of repparttar 109920

earth’s orbit around repparttar 109921

sun, 1 day lasts 24 hours. A star day however is approx. 23 hours, 56 minutes and 3 seconds long.)

However, there is no need to actively change repparttar 109922

plane of

orbit. The earth is not a perfect sphere but is a little bit wider around repparttar 109924

equator. This is caused by repparttar 109925

spinning of repparttar 109926

earth. The gravitational difference this causes changes repparttar 109927

orbit of a satellite. When repparttar 109928

angle with repparttar 109929

equator is chosen correctly (approx. 8 degrees of a polar orbit), an orbit is a sun synchronous orbit.

A very special type of sun synchronous orbit is called repparttar 109930

dawn-to-dusk orbit. This orbit is above repparttar 109931

earth where repparttar 109932

sun comes up or goes down. A satellite in this orbit never enters repparttar 109933

shadow of

earth but always receives sunlight.

Orbit Decay and Reentry

The earth’s atmosphere doesn’t stop at a certain altitude but really fades out into space. The higher you get repparttar 109935

less thick it is until eventually there is no more atmosphere. Generally we say that repparttar 109936

atmosphere is about 100 km (62 miles) thick, but in reality it extends much further out into space. Satellites experience friction from repparttar 109937

atmosphere up to altitudes of 1000 km (620 miles).

Due to

friction, a satellite will loose speed and with that repparttar 109939

altitude will decrease until eventually repparttar 109940

satellite will fall out of orbit back to repparttar 109941

earth. Depending on repparttar 109942

altitude this happens sooner or later. A satellite at an altitude of 200 km (124 miles) will stay in orbit for just a couple of months. At 300 km (186 miles) a satellite can stay in orbit for a couple of years. Above 1000 km (620 miles) a satellite can stay in orbit for thousands of years.

Letting Satellites fall back to earth and burn up in repparttar 109943

atmosphere is also a way of disposing of satellites.

Gary Davis is owner of Dish Network Satellite TV, has several years experience in the Satellite TV Industry and has written several articles on satellite TV.

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