Geography
Main article: Geography of Missouri
See also: List of Missouri state parks
Missouri, showing major cities and roads
Missouri borders eight different states, as does its neighbor, Tennessee. No state in the U.S. touches more than eight states. Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee; on the south by Arkansas; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River). The two largest Missouri rivers are the Mississippi, which defines the eastern boundary of the state, and the Missouri, which flows from west to east through the state, practically connecting the two largest cities, Kansas City and St. Louis.
Although today the state is usually considered part of the Midwest,[10][11] historically Missouri was sometimes considered a Southern state,[12] chiefly because of the settlement of migrants from the South and its status as a slave state before the Civil War. The counties that made up "Little Dixie" were those along the Missouri River in the center of the state, settled by Southern migrants who held the greatest concentration of slaves.
Residents of cities farther north and of the state's large metropolitan areas, including those where most of the state's population resides (Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia), typically consider themselves Midwestern. In rural areas and cities farther south, such as (Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Springfield, and Sikeston), residents typically self-identify as more Southern.
In 2005, Missouri received 16,695,000 visitors to its national parks and other recreational areas totaling 202,000 acres, giving it $7.41 mil. in annual revenues, 26.6% of its operating expenditures.[13]
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Mythology of Draco Star
Draco is among the earliest of the constellations to have been defined; in one of the oldest known astronomical records, the ancient Egyptians identified it as Tawaret, the goddess of the northern sky in their pantheon of deities. Considered ever-vigilant because the constellation never set, she was depicted a fierce protective goddess whose body was a composite of crocodile, human, lioness, and hippopotamus parts.[citation needed]
The Greeks named it Draco the dragon. In one of the more famous European myths, Draco represents Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon who guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. The eleventh of the Twelve Labours of Heracles was to steal the golden apples. He put Ladon to sleep with music, which enabled Heracles to freely take the golden apples. According to the legend, Hera later placed the dragon in the sky as the constellation Draco. Due to its position and nearby constellations in the zodiac sign of Libra (i.e. Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, and Boötes), the group of constellations can be seen to tell the tale of the eleventh labour.[original research?]
In another Greek legend, Draco represents the dragon killed by Cadmus before founding the city of Thebes, Greece. In a third legend, it represents the dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece and was killed by Jason. The fact that the stars of this circumpolar constellation never set plays an important part in its mythologies.[citation needed]
In Roman legend, Draco was a dragon killed by the goddess Minerva and tossed into the sky upon his defeat.[citation needed]
The Arabs did not interpret the constellation as a dragon, seeing instead an asterism called the Mother Camels.[citation needed]
Bottlenose dolphin
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This article is about the genus of bottlenose dolphins. For the specific species, see Common Bottlenose Dolphin.
Bottlenose dolphins
Bottlenose dolphin breaching in the bow wave of a boat
Size comparison against an average human
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Cetacea
Family:
Delphinidae
Genus:
TursiopsGervais 1855
Bottlenose dolphin range (in blue)
Species
See text
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Recent molecular studies show the genus contains two species, the Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), where previous thought was that this was one species. Bottlenose dolphins inhabit warm and temperate seas worldwide.
Bottlenose dolphins are grey in color and can be between 2 and 4 metres (6.6 and 13 ft) long, and weigh between 150 and 650 kilograms (330 and 1,400 lb). Their most distinguishing feature is the elongated snout, the rostrum, which gives the animal its common name. Like all whales and dolphins, though, the snout is not the functional nose; rather, the functional nose is the blowhole on the top of its head.
Bottlenose dolphins live in groups called pods that typically number about 15 dolphins, but group size varies from solitary bottlenose dolphins up to groups of over 100 or even occasionally over 1000 animals. Their diet consists mainly of small fish. Dolphin groups often work as a team to harvest schools of fish, but they also hunt individually. Dolphins search for prey primarily using echolocation, which is similar to sonar. They emit clicking sounds and listen for the return echo to determine the location and shape of nearby items, including potential prey. Bottlenose dolphins also use sound for communication. Sounds used for communication include squeaks and whistles emitted from the blowhole and sounds emitted through body language, such as leaping from the water and slapping their tails on the water.
There have been numerous investigations of bottlenose dolphin intelligence. Such testing has included tests of mimicry, use of artificial language, object categorization and self-recognition. This intelligence has driven considerable interaction with humans. Bottlenose dolphins are popular from aquarium shows and television programs such as Flipper. They have also been trained by militaries for tasks such as locating sea mines or detecting and marking enemy divers. In some areas they cooperate with local fishermen by driving fish towards the fishermen and eating the fish that escape the fishermen's nets. Some interactions with humans are harmful to the dolphins: people hunt bottlenose dolphins for food, and dolphins are killed inadvertently as a bycatch of tuna fishing.
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Galaksi Bimasakti Terancam Ditabrak Awan Raksasa
hidrogen dalam volume sangat besar tengah melesat mendekati piringan Galaksi
terjadi antara 20-40 juta tahun lagi akan menghasilkan kembang api spektakuler
di langit. Objek tersebut diberi nama Awan Smith, diambil dari nama Gail Smith,
seorang astronom AS yang mendeteksinya pertama kali pada tahun 1963 saat
meneliti di Universitas Leiden, Belanda.
Sejak ditemukan, para astronom masih berdebat apakah awan tersebut benar-benar
mendekati galaksi Bimasakti atau menjauhinya. Rekaman data yang ada selama ini
masih terbatas dan tidak jelas apakah objek tersebut bagian dari kabut
Bimasakti atau masih bergerak ke arahnya. Sejauh ini, para peneliti hanya
mendeteksi gas dan tidak ada satupun bintang di dalamnya. Satu-satunya cara
melihtanya adlah dengan teleskop radio karena gas dingin tidak memancarkan
cahaya, tetapi memantulkan gelombang radio.
Jika dilihat dari Bumi, lebar gumpalan awan
tersebut sebanding dengan 30 kali lebar Bulan. Dari kepala ke ujung ekornya
cukup untuk menyelimuti rasi bintang Orion. Hasil pengamatan baru menggunakan
teleskop radio terkendali paling besar di dunia, Teleskop Green Bank (GBT) di
Virginia Barat, AS,
menunjukkan bahwa objek tersebut bergerak ke arah galaksi Bimasakti. Bahkan,
seperti dilaporkan gabungan tim astronom dari Observatorium Astronomi Radio
Nasional AS (NRAO) dan Universitas Winconsin Whitewater dalam pertemuan
Masyarakat Astronomi Amerika ke-211 di Austin, Texas
baru-baru ini, gaya dorongnya telah
menyentuh kabut Bimasakti. "Jika tabrakan terjadi, hal tersebut akan
memicu lahirnya formasi bintang-bintang baru. Akan banyak bintang raksasa yang
terbentuk, berumur pendek, dan meledak sebagai supernova yang memancarkan
cahaya menyilaukan," ujar Ketua tim peneliti, DR. Felix Lockman, dari
NRAO. Sebab, Awan Smith membawa energi sangat besar berupa gas hidrogen yang
cukup untuk membentuk jutaan bintang seukuran Matahari. Awan Smith merupakan
gumpalan gas yang berukuran panjang mencapai 11.000 tahun cahaya dan lebar
2.500 tahun cahaya. Objek tersebut saat ini berada 40.000 tahun cahaya dari
Bumi dan 8.000 tahun cahaya dari piringan Bimasakti.
Objek yang pantas disebut kabut monster di ruang
kosmos ini bergerak dengan kecepatan 240 kilometer perdetik dan diperkirakan
menabrak piringan galaksi Bimasakti dengan kemiringan 45 derajat. Tabrakan akan
terjadi di pinggir piringan Bimasakti yang jarak ke pusatnya hampir sama dengan
jarak tata surya kita ke pusat galaksi. Namun, posisinya jauh dari tata surya
kita, diperkirakan berjarak 90 derajat terhadap pusat piringan. "Kami
tidak tahu dari mana asalnya, apalagi orbitnya membingungkan, namun kami
katakan bahwa ia mulai berinteraksi dengan bagian terluar Bimasakti,"
tandas Lockman.