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Authors: Lee Billings
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Pioneer,
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formation of, in our solar system,
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Kepler’s laws of motion of,
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protoplanets,
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transits of,
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plants,
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photosynthesis in,
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Plato,
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Pluto,
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polarization,
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POLISH,
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Pollack, James,
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Pong, Christopher,
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Precambrian period,
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precious metals,
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primordial soup,
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prokaryotes,
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Proterozoic Eon,
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protons,
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Proxima Centauri,
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psychohistory,
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pyrite,
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Pythagoras,
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Quaternary Period,
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Queloz, Didier,
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radio,
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Radio Astronomy Laboratory,
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Recession, Great,
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recombination,
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red beds,
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redox reactions,
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redwood trees,
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Regulus,
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Renaissance,
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Reynolds, Ray,
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Ricketts, Taylor,
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Rittenhouse, David,
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Road Map for the Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems, A,
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rocket equation,
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Sagan, Carl,
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San Diego Air & Space Museum,
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Sasselov, Dimitar,
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Schmidt, Eric,
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Science,
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scientific method,
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Seager, Sara,
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children of,
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ExoplanetSat project of,
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“Next 40 Years of Exoplanets” conference of,
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as Planetary Resources advisor,
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TPF work of,
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Wevrick and,
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Wevrick’s illness and death and,
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Wevrick’s marriage to,
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SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence),
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Arecibo Observatory and,
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Drake equation and,
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first modern search by,
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Green Bank conference of,
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lack of funding for,
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Laughlin’s view of,
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NASA and,
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Project Ozma,
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SETI Institute,
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Allen Telescope Array of,
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shales,
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Simonyi, Charles,
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Smith, Matt,
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Snowball Earth events,
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solar eclipse,
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solar system,
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evolution of, as viewed from stars,
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formation of,
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formation of Earth in,
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formation of planets in,
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heliocentric model of,
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measuring size of,
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shell of light surrounding,
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Soviet Union,
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nuclear weapons and,
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Soyuz rocket,
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Venera 13,
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Space Age,
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Space Interferometry Mission (SIM),
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space junk,
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Space Launch System,
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space missions,
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