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  2. Conway, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Conway is a city and the county seat of Horry County, South Carolina, United States. [8] The population was 24,849 at the 2020 census, [9] up from 17,103 in the 2010 census, [10] making it the 18th-most populous city in the state. The city is part of the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area. It is the home of Coastal Carolina University.

  3. Poles of astronomical bodies - Wikipedia

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    At the antipode of this point is the far pole, where Jupiter lies at the nadir; it is also called the anti-Jovian point. There will also be a single unmoving point which is farthest along Io's orbit (best defined as the point most removed from the plane formed by the north-south and near-far axes, on the leading side) – this is the leading pole.

  4. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Myrtle Beach is a resort city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is located in the center of a long and continuous 60-mile (97 km) stretch of beach known as the " Grand Strand ” in the northeastern part of the state. Its year-round population was 35,682 as of the 2020 census, making it the 13th-most ...

  5. Horry County, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    843. Congressional district. 7th. Website. www.horrycountysc.gov. Horry County (/ ˈɒriː / OR-ree) is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 351,029. [ 2 ] It is the fourth-most populous county in South Carolina. The county seat is Conway.

  6. Jet stream - Wikipedia

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    The general trend in the atmosphere is for temperatures to decrease in the poleward direction. As a result, winds develop an eastward component and that component grows with altitude. Therefore, the strong eastward moving jet streams are in part a simple consequence of the fact that the Equator is warmer than the north and south poles. [31]

  7. Jupiter's South Pole - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter's South Pole. For the first time the South Pole of Jupiter was photographed in detail by the Juno spacecraft, which arrived to Jupiter in July 2016 and for the first time in history entered the polar orbit of Jupiter. At the same time, six cyclones were discovered at the South Pole: [1] Оne in the center and five around it (their ...

  8. South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina (/ ˌkærəˈlaɪnə / ⓘ KARR-ə-LY-nə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia to the southwest and south across the Savannah River. Along with North Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East ...

  9. Axial precession - Wikipedia

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    Precessional movement of Earth. Earth rotates (white arrows) once a day around its rotational axis (red); this axis itself rotates slowly (white circle), completing a rotation in approximately 26,000 years [ 1 ] In astronomy, axial precession is a gravity-induced, slow, and continuous change in the orientation of an astronomical body's ...