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Since the heat it radiates back into space depends on its temperature, the afternoon side of an asteroid radiates more heat than the morning side.
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But the global temperature mainly depends on how much energy the planet receives from the sun and how much it radiates back into space quantities that change very little.
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"The first thing that happens when we add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is it radiates some extra radiation back down to the surface, and we warm up a little bit, " Kirk-Davidoff says.
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To better predict the orbits of hazardous objects, this group is looking at the Yarkovsky effect, a force created when the asteroid absorbs sunlight and re-radiates it as heat.
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And even though it's 3:45 and even though I can't see straight, there's a look of joy that radiates from my face that I think says it all.
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Though Tolkien, a Catholic, helped reconvert Lewis to Christianity after his atheist years, it is Lewis's fantasy world, not Tolkien's, that radiates Christian allegory.
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