Stars Missing Elements

There are millions of stars in the cosmos and there are even more planets orbiting them but stars that are missing elements,plant like elements. It shows that there is a planet small and terrestrial like ours. This is the perfect place to find a new planet like ours. So far sciences had found around a dozen twin stars that they are studying to find a new planet

“That happens to be the star that’s an almost identical copy of the sun,” Melendez said. “In our opinion, it could be a very good target.”

This is the perfect way to find a new planet and it relates to elements that we are learning in class.

Comparing Sizes of Atoms

Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive element, and on the periodic table it is PU. Most people might confuse it as PL  but when they were naming it Pu was easily remembered.It has many interesting uses including a nuclear bomb. It was discovered by the university of California, since in nature it is found in minimum amounts it would have been really hard to find it. They made it in world war 2 for atomic bombs and it is created for uranium. It can be also used as heating chemical but its radioactive. It is currently used for electricy and it is also being used in spacecraft being sent today.

Buoy Data

Hypothesis: I think that most of them will placed around the ring of fire area since they need to detect tsunami before its to late. The waves should be the biggest at the shore lines since the logic is the same and tsunamis, as the ground is rising the water has no where to go so it rises, same as a tsunami.



When i looked at the map their was a lot of them placed around north america and they seem the be stacked so i think it shows that their are lots of waves, also lots of them were stacked along Europe. One thing that was interesting for me was that their are lots of buoys stacked in lines in the middle of the pacific ocean and i cant seem to find the reason why. The red circle show that data hasn't been recorded in the last hours and the yellow are with recent data. As you can see above their are lots of them stacked that show recent data but their is one with no data in 8 hours in the middle of them so that puzzles me.

Tsunami

Imagine a world without fears and danger were we can all be happy, but that cant happen since there are lots natural disasters that strike fear into fear of people eyes. When plate tectonics move they can create horriable things and sometimes thing that you can say are good. They crunch and crash into one another creating all sorts of things like mountins (Himalayas) or when the go apart from one another that make the mariana trecnch, but it is not always so nice and happy as it might seem. It can make a earth quake and the chain of that which is a tsunami. This happens when two tectonicn plates crash in to one another the less dense one will sink and the other one will stay up but over the years they create a really big stress on the point were they meet until eventully they cant hold it anymore and they just flip up witch makes a earthquake but if it is in the water it will cause a tsunami. There are also many other ways for a tsunami to happen which include landslides,volcanos,glacier or some of the more uncommem ones which are meteorites and nuclear tests. The word tsunami comes form Japanese meaning harbor wave and it is not clasiffed as a normal wave. The reason behind this is that the way lenght is way to big and it sometimes resembles as a rapidly rising tide so some people call this tidal waves. In case you dont know what a tsunami is or you want to hear the right defenition for it is " a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water." We learned a lot about tsunamis from past events that happened, but it is proven that people way back around 426 BC knew about this and they had a idea that this might be happening from submarine earthquakes. "The cause, in my opinion, of this phenomenon must be sought in the earthquake. At the point where its shock has been the most violent the sea is driven back, and suddenly recoiling with redoubled force, causes the inundation. Without an earthquake I do not see how such an accident could happen." Now as i said before it is caused by tectonic plates. When they happen, in the sea they are not even noticable they rise like 300 mm but the problem is when they get close to the shore line. So if you were on a boat far away from the shore you can live and not even feel it or it has happened to people that they go diving and they dont notice it. Since the force of the water need to go somewere and since it get shallower it just rises. Not long agao it was discovered that the source of the huge waves are are created by giant landslides in the water, they are called sciorrucks. Since the landslide displaces large amount of water it creates energy that water cant absorb. Most tsunamis happen at the ring of fire since there the plate boundries crash. A tsunami is commenly found as two or even three waves that come one after another which can cause great destruciton. Most of them travel at really high speeds and are devestating. Now when we come to the life saving or protection against tsunamis there is one commen thing that all of us can see and react to and it is the sudden drawback of water, when the water recede quickly from the beach. This is ussaly the sign that a tsunami could be coming and you should run more inland and higher as possiable to stay safe. Even if there has been a earthquake it might has caused a tsunami. One interesting fact i found is that it has been tried to be used as a wepon for war, in world war two there has been an attempt that we know of, of creating a tsunami. The New Zealand Military Force made a project called project seal and it was used to create a wave that would carry bombs through the water to the enemy, the attempt was a fail, but we dont know if somebody acuttly made it. One more fact is that palm trees have adapted to tsunamis so the ycan reasist them. Another detection system is animals. Someone reported that he saw all sorts of animals running more inland and higher and some time after a tsunami stroke so it was correct. The most commen ones are used by the millitary which detect the water movment and preasurre so if an enemmy ship was going that way they could see it. It is called the BPR and it detects the change in water. If it notices something wrong in the water it will send data more frequenlty so they can see if it is a tsunami. This system has been used for a while and if it detects one the syriens will go on and warm everybody. One more way is to use the sattile and it has been done they did see a tsunami on the sattile but it took five hours to send the data which is far to late. These "Killer Waves can be devestating but we are learning more and more to make them no cause any harm.

Waves

In class today we learned about waves and how they interact with other objects. We used a simulation and tested different things. We learned about amplitude and frequency and how they are combined to create a certain wave. Frequency is how much drops per second drop, so if it is big then it would make lots of drops. Amplitude is how much disturbance it cause and it affects how big the wave will be if it is small then only tiny drops will drop. There were many things to try like rotating the view or putting barriers. If we put barriers then the wave would hit into it but only a tiny bit of the force will continue to flow so it decreased the wave. If we put high amplitude and low frequency then it makes big waves with lots of separation between each one. There were lots of things to try out and it was lots of fun. ( Couldn't Put Pictures didn't work for some reason )

Data Analysis: What patterns or relationships do you see in your data table/ sketches/ images?

I saw that every time we would try to put in a drop of water you could see that the waves went until they hit something and made tiny reflections. When we dropped it from a higher height it would make bigger waves since it increases the amplitude. One thing i observed that if a wave cant pass the certain thing it will earthier reflect or pass through it.

Conclusion: What do you conclude about the behavior of waves in the various situations you created today? Can you answer the guiding question now?

My conclusion from this experiment is that the bigger amplitude the bigger the wave will be and the better it will pas through a object or a reflect off of it. Although waves can collide with other waves. This helped me see how the interact with each other.

The Young Moon?

Did you know that the moon is actually younger than we previously thought? According to the initial theories the moon was formed 4.5 billion years ago but recent research proved differently. The moon was made of the remains of the planet called Thea that hit proto-earth and crashed into pieces but the earth survived. Then from all the magma remains that were revolving around the earth, they cooled down and crashed into one another to form the moon. When they cooled down they turned into different mineral components. The research that gave us the new testament of the moon’s age was performed by the team that included Carnegie’s Richard Carlson and former-Carnegie fellow Maud Boyet. This team of researchers analyzed the rock called ferroan anorthosite that is the oldest moon’s crustal rock. Before they were unable to estimate precisely the moon’s age because they lacked high-tech equipment but now thanks to the new more refined technology they were able to estimate the age to 4.36 billion years, which is much less than the previous estimate of   4.568 billion years. They also analyzed both the lunar and the earth minerals and concluded that the moon and earth’s oldest crust was form at the same time shortly after the impact of Thea. “The extraordinarily young age of this lunar sample either means that the Moon solidified significantly later than previous estimates, or that we need to change our entire understanding of the Moon’s geochemical history,” Carlson said.