• The Dynamics of an Asteroid is a fictional book by Professor James Moriarty, the implacable foe of Sherlock Holmes. The only mention of it in Arthur Conan...
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    much respected work titled The Dynamics of an Asteroid. After he becomes the subject of unspecified "dark rumours" in the university town, he is compelled...
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    The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s. They are...
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    An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System. They are rocky...
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    The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the archetype object 1221 Amor /ˈeɪmɔːr/. The orbital perihelion of these objects is...
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  • well as a criminal mastermind. In addition to the Treatise, he wrote the book The Dynamics of an Asteroid, containing mathematics so esoteric that no one...
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  • is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object with a diameter of 370 metres (1,210 feet) that caused a brief period of concern in December...
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    List of objects at Lagrange points Tadpole orbit Robutel, Philippe; Souchay, Jean (2010). "An introduction to the dynamics of trojan asteroids". In Dvorak...
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    The following is a collection of lists of asteroids of the Solar System that are exceptional in some way, such as their size or orbit. For the purposes...
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    playful use of the traditional definition of canon as an authoritative list of books accepted as holy scripture. The four novels of the canon: A Study...
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    the Valley of Fear (1983), an animated film starring Peter O'Toole as the voice of Holmes. "The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun" (1954), an episode of the...
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally...
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  • including "The Dynamics of an Asteroid". Vernet, who also uses the alias "Rache", also details horrors that he has witnessed being committed by the Great Old...
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    The Aten asteroids are a dynamical group of asteroids whose orbits bring them into proximity with Earth. By definition, Atens are Earth-crossing asteroids...
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    The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter...
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    A Study in Scarlet (category Cultural depictions of Brigham Young)
    The first chapter of A Study in Scarlet read by LibriVox volunteer David Clarke. Problems playing this file? See media help. A Study in Scarlet is an...
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  • Dynamics of an Asteroid, a fictional treatise on astronomy written by Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty. The Dynamics of an Asteroid is mentioned...
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    Venus and become Earth-crossing asteroids in the future. The dynamics of many Atira asteroids resemble the one induced by the Kozai-Lidov mechanism, which...
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    p. 111 The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is an 1890 detective novel, and it is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British...
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    though the most frequent involve asteroids, comets or meteoroids and have minimal effect. When large objects impact terrestrial planets such as the Earth...
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    M-class) asteroids are a spectral class of asteroids which appear to contain higher concentrations of metal phases (e.g. iron-nickel) than other asteroid classes...
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  • JPL Solar System Dynamics. Retrieved 2024-08-15. Mineralogic and Temperature-Induced Spectral Investigations of A-type Asteroids: (246) Asporina and...
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  • hyperbolic asteroid is any sort of asteroid or non-cometary astronomical object observed to have an orbit not bound to the Sun and will have an orbital eccentricity...
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    This is a list of examples where an asteroid or meteoroid travels close to the Earth. Some are regarded as potentially hazardous objects if they are estimated...
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  • Below is the list of asteroid close approaches to Earth in the early years of the 21st century before any asteroid impacts had been successfully predicted...
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    constitute a slosh dynamics problem, where the dynamics of the liquid can interact with the container to alter the system dynamics significantly. Important...
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    (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and which is large enough to cause...
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    the leading Sherlock Holmes society, for whom he wrote an essay arguing that Professor Moriarty's work "The Dynamics of An Asteroid" involved the willful...
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    of the Worlds) after Stent attempted to discredit Moriarty's The Dynamics of an Asteroid. In Newman's story, Cave is actually Moriarty in disguise. Cubicle...
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  • of the Shadowmen is an American anthology of short fiction edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier and published by Black Coat Press. The stories...
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