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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
paul h asked: I've heard the first man-made object in space was the cover for an atomic bomb test hole in the early fifties...not Sputnik. Could a volcano like Krakatoa or Santorini have ejected matter into space with a large enough eruption/explosion?MICHEAL
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
soccerjock asked: The first active volcano observed outside the Earth was discovered in 1979 on Io, one of the moons of Jupiter. The volcano was observed to be ejecting material to a height of 2.1*105 m. Given that the size of the acceleration due to gravity (g) on Io is ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
0 asked: The first active volcano observed outside Earth was discovered in 1979 on Io, one of the largest moons of Jupiter. The volcano was observed to be ejecting material to a height of about 2.00 X 10^5 m. Given that the acceleration of gravity is 1.80 m/s^2. Find the ...
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