Saturday, March 14, 2009

more infomation on earth

Okay i know you all want to learn things about our planet so here are some infomation about EARTH
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest: orbit: 149,600,000 km (1.00 AU) from Sun
diameter: 12,756.3 km
mass: 5.972e24 kg
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Planet Earth Amazing pictures of Earth from space combine useful science and artistic beauty.
Orbit : Nasa Astronauts Photograph the Earth A beautiful coffee table book. Kids often ask me which is my favorite planet. My answer is always "Earth". This book shows why.
Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, hundreds of other names for the planet in
other languages. In Roman Mythology, the goddess of the Earth was Tellus - the fertile soil (Greek: Gaia, terra mater - Mother Earth).
It was not until the time of
Copernicus (the sixteenth century) that it was understood that the Earth is just another planet.
Mir space station and Earth's limb Earth, of course, can be studied without the aid of spacecraft. Nevertheless it was not until the twentieth century that we had maps of the entire planet. Pictures of the planet taken from space are of considerable importance; for example, they are an enormous help in weather prediction and especially in tracking and predicting hurricanes. And they are extraordinarily beautiful.
The Earth is divided into several layers which have distinct chemical and seismic properties (depths in km): 0- 40 Crust
40- 400 Upper mantle
400- 650 Transition region
650-2700 Lower mantle
2700-2890 D'' layer
2890-5150 Outer core
5150-6378 Inner core

copied from:www.nineplanets.org/earth.html
If you guys want more infomation them go onto that website.

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