The Pendleton Panther

Deep down you know you a little feelings for the little flipping mammal. It all relates back to when you are young at  the local Dolphin show. Dolphins are one of the smartest animals. In Austria there has been a discovery in Dolphin feeding. They feed on fast small fish. Dolphins have been having trouble catching their peer. There is a small group of dolphins that have find a way to bet the  survival of the fittest. The head dolphin runs in a tight circle pushing its tail down hard  on the sand causing a thick dark cloud. The small fish response  by going crazy. The Dolphins just wait and their food is literally handed to them. Scientist were amazed by the creativity this mammals have shown. If its from the local Dolphin show too Austria where they are finding new discoveries every day on survival.

Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is caused by the uncontrollable growth of abnormal skin cells. It is usually detected from an irregular looking mole on your skin. If left untreated, it can develop into a serious fatal illness spreading quickly from the skin into tissues and organs. It is very dangerous. The main cause of skin cancer is the UV rays from the sun. Not all cases of skin cancer are from the sun. In some cases it is inherited through your genes, and unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done.

Many of us enjoy soaking up the son and getting tan, I admit it myself. If people come to the beach on holidays they sit at the beach for most of the day and frazzle their skin.

When you are running around outside for many hours playing your sport in Florida, you don’t realise the effect the sun is having on your skin. That is why you need to wear sunscreen and a hat!

Every November, Earth gets a glance of meteor light in the night sky. This year is not different. While Asia will be getting the most mesmerizing meteor show this year, we will also be getting a natural entertainment. The Leonid meteor shower is coming this morning, at 3:30 am and the shower will run from then until about 5:30 am. There should be 20 to 30 meteors per hour in America and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over in Asia. With the weather like tonight’s, nothing will stop us from seeing the Leonid meteor shower. So please, spread the news and set your alarms to 3:30 am! I don’t know if you have heard this before but wishing upon a meteor is very effective! Having a wish come true is definitely worth waking up for! Even if you do not believe in these “girly” beliefs, you should still not miss the chance because as damaged and polluted as the earth is now (this is just my opinion), it would not be surprising that we will never get to see this again. Besides, it could be a romantic night with your other half and maybe you can even repair a broken relationship or even better, mend a shattered heart.

Enjoy the show and don’t forget to make a wish!

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered 32 new planets orbiting various stars in the galaxy.  The discovery was made at the La Silla observatory in Chile thanks to the High Accuracy Radial Planet Searcher or Harps.  The Harps spectrograph is connected in turn to a 3.6 meter telescope and has considerably contributed to the 400 exoplanets, or planets that exist outside of our solar system, that have thus far been found.  Because the planets aren’t visible even through the most powerful telescopes, they had to be found by analyzing the wobble that their stars underwent as each body pulled on the other.  Although none of the planets seemed inhabitable or particularly unusual, the importance of these discoveries relates to the masses of some of these bodies.  While a good number of high mass planets made up of toxic gasses were found, it was the lower mass planets that were exciting.  Massive gas planets were thought to make up the vast majority of exoplanets, severely reducing the probability that life could exist elsewhere in our galaxy, but, according to the ESO, as many as 40% of stars in our universe could be orbited by a planet of similar mass to Earth.

While NASA’s LCROSS success crash landing onto the moon was spectacular, now that the probes and sensors have all been deployed, the real science can begin.  The surprises came right from the landing as excessive levels of sodium have been detected, and while it was known that some percentage of the lunar surface was made up of the highly active metal, the concentration is much greater than expected.  LCROSS identifies elements and compounds using its many spectrometers.  Spectrometers compare which frequencies of light pass through certain substances with known elemental frequencies.  These devices are highly accurate, and it is hoped that they will be able to detect water if any is present.  The probe, however, has even more up its sleeve.  Microwave ovens work by exciting water molecules by emitting electromagnetic waves at the frequency at which water resonates.  LCROSS is also armed with a microwave emitter, and it was hoped that energizing molecules of water would make them easier to detect.  Unfortunately, no water has been found thus far on the moon, but the abundance of hydrogen found on other moon missions keeps hopes high.

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the expulsion from the uterus of an embryo, resulting in or caused by its death.

Abortion has a long story and has been induced by various methods. The herbal abortifacients, the use of sharpened tools, physical trauma and medications to induce abortion. The legality, prevalence, and cultural views on abortion vary substantially around the world. In many parts of the world there is prominent and divisive public controversy over the ethical and legal issues of abortion. Abortion and abortion-related issues feature prominently in the national politics in many nations often involving the opposing pro-life. Incidence of abortion has declined worldwide, as access to family planning education and contraceptive services has increased. Abortion incidence in the United States declined  about a 8% from 1996 to 2003.

The types of abortion are medical and surgical abortion. The medical abortions is only used in the first trimester of pregnancy. The medical abortion is the 10% used in the United States and Europe. Surgical abortion it is used in  the first 12 weeks, suction-aspiration or vacuum abortion is the most common method.Manual  Vacuum  Aspiration (MVA) by suction using a manual syringe, while electric Vacuum Aspiration (EVA) abortion uses an electric pump.

the LCROSS spacecraft separating from its Centaur rocket.

On Friday October 9th NASA launched a 7 million dollar rocket at the moon. NASA’s clamming the strikes on the moon was a success, kicking up enough dust for scientists to determine whether or not there is water on the moon. They launched the rocket at the moon’s South Pole because this area of the moon does not get any sun and will be the most likely spot to find evidence of water. The NASA experts expected the plume cloud to rise up at least 16 kilometers after the rocket hit but they got nowhere near this number, but NASA officials are claming that this does not matter and they have sufficient data to find what they are looking for. It will be a while before all the data from the satellite can be analyzed to determine if there is water on the moon, according to LCROSS project manager Dan Andrews.

Chemistry is a type of science that is used everyday and it is in almost everything around us. I have Mr. Shubert’s chemistry class and he is a good teacher, chemistry is the hardest thing that I have every done and it is a hard course to take but it is one if the interesting classes that I have ever taken. So far in chemistry class we have learned about how atoms ,elements, and particles work and used every day.

It’s official, water has been found on our moon existing in ice crystals.  Although the Earth’s driest deserts are still less arid than the Moon, it is estimated that 32 ounces of water exist in one ton of lunar surface.  Proof of this fantastic scientific discovery, however, may have been brought back to earth over 30 years ago.  Moon rocks from the Apollo missions contained trace amounts of water, but the astronomers passed it off as accidental contamination as many of the containers had leaked upon returning to Earth.  The confusion is not too surprising as, interestingly enough, the isotopes of oxygen that exist in water on Earth are identical to those found on the moon, making the respective molecules indistinguishable.  Scientists now believe that pockets of ice may exist in the sheltered pits of craters.  Insufficient data prevents confirmation of this theory, but if it is true, it could mean entirely feasible human settlements on the moon.

Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry…
They were wrong…
In a study published today in Nature, researchers led by Brown University geologist Alberto Saal found evidence of water molecules in pebbles retrieved by NASA’s Apollo missions. The findings point to the existence of water deep beneath the moon’s surface, transforming scientific understanding of our nearest neighbor’s formation and, perhaps, our own. There may also be a more immediately practical application. Is there water there? That’s important for lunar missions. People could get the water. They could use the hydrogen for energy,” said Saal. The pebbles were scattered by lunar volcanoes that erupted three billion years ago, when the moon was still a cooling hunk of magma cast into orbit by the collision of a Mars-sized asteroid with Earth.

How many planets are in our Solar System? If you ask NASA there are eight.  Or is there?   Three years ago, NASA ruled out Pluto as a planet as it is now considered a “dwarf planet.”  With Pluto’s inconsistent orbit around the sun, NASA said Pluto is not a planet.  However, using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, scientists for NASA though they had found a new planet. The figure shown below was spotted in 2003 but NASA did not see the planet until July of this year. The new planet is shown moving through the stars and each picture was taken about 90 minutes apart. Some scientists don’t see how it can be a planet since it is a least the same size as Pluto maybe bigger. Regardless, the new planet is farther away and colder and darker.  So, is the new planet a planet? NASA has been watching the planet closely and they are not sure if they will classify it as a planet.