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In May 2012, an Ipsos poll of 16,000 adults in 21 countries found that 8 percent had experienced fear or anxiety over the possibility of the world ending in December 2012, while an average of 10 percent agreed with the statement "the Mayan calendar, which some say 'ends' in 2012, marks the end of the world", with responses as high as 20 percent ...
Earth's rotation imaged by Deep Space Climate Observatory, showing tilt. Earth's rotation or Earth's spin is the rotation of planet Earth around its own axis, as well as changes in the orientation of the rotation axis in space. Earth rotates eastward, in prograde motion. As viewed from the northern polar star Polaris, Earth turns counterclockwise.
"The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy" is the fifth episode of the third season of the American science fiction comedy television series Rick and Morty. In the episode, Rick takes Jerry on a mission to an alien resort when the latter feels left out, and Summer accidentally grows to a huge size and inside-out.
This was later turned into a point-and-click computer game, where AM was voiced by Harlan Ellison himself. Novel series 1967–2005 Technology The Berserker series: Fred Saberhagen: Novel 1968 Technology Rite of Passage: Alexei Panshin: Earth, after building a dozen or so Ships and seeding a number of colony planets, is destroyed. The Ships are ...
An asteroid that’s somewhere between 30 and 100 feet long is hurtling through space in the direction of Earth at 30,000 miles per hour. Asteroid 2012 TC4 is going to fly by Earth on October 12 ...
Cutaway of the Earth showing the inner core (white) and outer core (yellow). Inner core super-rotation is the eastward rotation of the inner core of Earth relative to its mantle, for a net rotation rate that is usually [clarification needed] faster than Earth as a whole.
2012 TC 4 is a tumbling micro-asteroid classified as a bright near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 10 meters (30 feet) in diameter. [6] [7] [8] It was first observed by Pan-STARRS at Haleakala Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui, in the United States.
As the Earth Turns may refer to: As the Earth Turns, the 1933 debut novel by Gladys Hasty Carroll; As the Earth Turns, an adaptation of the Carroll novel; As the Earth Turns, an American science-fiction silent film directed by Richard Lyford