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Saving Energy -- 99 ways to increase your home`s efficiency
Everybody agrees that electricity is pretty amazing. It can keep you warm, give you light, cook your food, and help entertain you. Natural gas is amazing as well. Gas provides energy that is efficient, clean and economical. In fact, natural gas is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel, the most desirable fuel for the environment.
Read this week`s Serving Neigbors to find out how you can save energy... |
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| What is big, red and only about 42 million miles away? |
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The planet Mars as seen by the Voyager Space Probe.
The red planet, Mars is glowing in the night sky this month as its path in the solar system brings it closer to Earth than at any other time since 1988: only 42,000,000 miles away. That`s but a hop, skip, and a jump! Astronomically speaking, that is.
Mars, with its magnificent red color shining as bright as a star, should be hard to miss shimmering above the southeastern horizon.
On the 21st of June, Mars will come within 42 million miles of earth, the closest it has been in 13 years. On the 28th of August 2003 it will be even closer, at only 34,700,000 miles from Mother Earth.
The planet’s eccentric orbit causes its distance from Earth to vary.
The Red Planet will make a spectacular sight with out the aid of a telescope or other equipment. But with a good telescope you and your kids might even be able to pick out the Mars` moons, Deimos and Phobos. |
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