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  2. GEO-3 - Wikipedia

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    GEO-3 may refer to: . the third in a series of Global Environment Outlook reports issued in 2002 by the United Nations Environmental Program; SBIRS GEO 3, the potential third in a series of geosynchronous orbit space surveillance satellites planned as part of the United States Air Force's Space-Based Infrared System

  3. Antarctic Circle - Wikipedia

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    The Antarctic Circle is the northernmost latitude in the Southern Hemisphere at which the centre of the sun can remain continuously above the horizon for twenty-four hours; as a result, at least once each year at any location within the Antarctic Circle the centre of the sun is visible at local midnight, and at least once the centre of the sun is below the horizon at local noon.

  4. Tourism geography - Wikipedia

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    Tourists at Niagara Falls.. Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity. Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism.

  5. Geostationary orbit - Wikipedia

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    where F g is the gravitational force acting between two objects, M E is the mass of the Earth, 5.9736 × 10 24 kg, m s is the mass of the satellite, r is the distance between the centers of their masses, and G is the gravitational constant, (6.674 28 ± 0.000 67) × 10 −11 m 3 kg −1 s −2.

  6. Geopolitics - Wikipedia

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    [3] Geopolitics focuses on political power linked to geographic space, in particular, territorial waters and land territory in correlation with diplomatic history . Topics of geopolitics include relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element, relations which create a ...

  7. Geopolymer - Wikipedia

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    The fundamental unit within a geopolymer structure is a tetrahedral complex consisting of silicon or aluminum coordinated through covalent bonds to four oxygens. The geopolymer framework results from the cross-linking between these tetrahedra, which leads to a 3-dimensional aluminosilicate network, where the negative charge associated with tetrahedral aluminium is balanced by a small cationic ...