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TIDBITS® TAKES A PEEK AT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

by Rick Dandes

Ever since the dawn of man, there has been a fas-cination with the stars. But it wasn’t until the inven-tion of the telescope that a true mapping of the sky began. Of course now, with space-age telescopes mounted on deep-space probes, we know a lot more about the universe. Take a journey into space with Tidbits, as we explore the wonders of our own solar system. • How old is our solar system? About 4.6 billion years old, give or take a few million years. Since the Earth is constantly resurfacing itself, we can’t determine exactly how old it is by examining the surface, but there’s another way to find out. Meteorites, which date back to the formation of the solar system, have been raining down on Earth for millions of years. Sci-entists have sampled meteorites and learned that they’re all about 4.6 billion years old. That means that everything in the solar system formed around the same time.• Until the telescope was invented around 1608, sky watchers used their naked eyes, careful record keeping and basic mathematics to help them under-stand the heavens.• Examples of ancient Rome’s contribution to space science are the names of the planets. The associa-tion of certain planets with certain attributes of gods or goddesses harkens back to the Sumerians, but Roman names were directly appropriated. Examples are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn.•

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards, and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title “The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

• Born to a share-cropping family in the segregated South, Anna Mae Bullock and her elder sister were raised by their grandparents. Anna Mae eventually moved to St. Louis to reunite with her mother. • In St. Louis, Bullock attended Sumner High School. At this time, Bullock’s sister was taking her to several nightclubs in the city. One night, Bullock met Mississippi-born rhythm and blues musician Ike Turner and later asked him if she could sing for him. Ike was initially skeptical, but after much persistence on Bullock’s part, he decided to let her sing. And the rest is history.• Going by the name “Little Ann,” Bullock was soon the lead singer in a soul revue led by Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm band.• When the singer that was to record “A Fool In Love” failed to turn up for the session, Ike Turner drafted Bullock to provide the vocal with the inten-tion of removing it later. However, once he heard her spine-tingling performance of the song, he changed his plans. He changed her name to Tina Turner, and when the record became a hit, Tina became a permanent fixture in Ike’s band and his quest for international stardom. • After they married, Ike and Tina Turner recorded a string of hits in the 1960s, including “A Fool in Love,” “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine,” “I Idolize You” and the groundbreaking “River Deep, Mountain High” with producer Phil Spector. • By the end of the decade, Ike and Tina incorpo-rated modern rock styles into their act and began including their interpretations of “Come Together,” “Honky Tonk Woman” and “I Want to Take You Higher” in their stage show.• “Proud Mary,” the duo’s interpretation of the Cre-dence Clearwater Revival hit, was the duo’s great-est commercial success, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1971.The single eventually won a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Per-formance by a Duo or Group.• Many believed that after Turner broke with Ike, she would not return to the music scene. Tina proved otherwise, when she, with the help of Roger Davies, her Australian manager, released her multi-platinum and Grammy-winning album in 1984, “Pri-vate Dancer,” with her biggest hits “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” and “Better Be Good to Me.” • Turner in the movies: Following Turner’s success in 1984, she starred in the film, “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” and recorded the film’s soundtrack as well, which produced the international hit, “We Don’t Need Another Hero.”• Turner was listed on Rolling Stone’s list “The Im-mortals — The Greatest Artists of All Time.” She is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and two of her recordings, “River Deep - Mountain High” (1999) and “Proud Mary” (2003), are in the Gram-my Hall of Fame. Turner has won eight Grammy Awards.

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“The Pillars of the Earth” (NR) -- Based on the novel by Ken Follett, this critically acclaimed miniseries of medieval intrigue and forbidden romance stars Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland. The construction of a massive “cathedral of light” is the centerpiece of this historical fiction, which includes plenty of the Machiavellian machinations and bodice-ripping that fans of “The Tudors” and HBO’s “Rome” seem to delight in.

TV SERIES

“The Tudors” The Complete Series“7th Heaven” The Final Season“Married ... with Children” The Complete Series “Lennon Naked”“Murder She Wrote” Complete Twelfth Season“Deadwood” The Complete Series“Batman Beyond” The Complete Series “Wagon Train” The Complete Season Two“Space Precinct” The Complete Series“Durham County” Season 2

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Saw 3D (R) Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor2. Paranormal Activity 2 (R) Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat3. Red (PG-13) Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman4. Jackass 3D (R) Johnny Knoxville, Ryan Dunn5. Hereafter (PG-13) Matt Damon, Cecile De-France6. Secretariat (PG) Diane Lane, John Malk-ovich7. The Social Network (PG-13) Jesse Eisen-berg, Justin Timberlake8. Life As We Know It (PG-13) Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel9. The Town (R) Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm10. Conviction (R) Hilary Swank, Sam Rock-well

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of November 6, 2010

Top 10 Video Rentals1. The Karate Kid (PG) Jaden Smith 2. Get Him to the Greek (R) Jonah Hill3. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) animated4. Robin Hood (PG-13) Russell Crowe5. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) Robert Downey, Jr.6. Jonah Hex (PG-13) Josh Brolin7. A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) Jackie Earle Haley8. Splice (R) Adrien Brody9. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) Jake Gyllenhaal10. Leaves of Grass (R) Edward Norton

Top 10 DVD Sales1. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) Dream-Works)2. The Karate Kid (PG) (Sony)3. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) (Paramount)4. Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (G) (Buena Vista)5. Jonah Hex (PG-13) (Warner)6. The Tudors: The Final Season (NR) (Para-mount)7. Robin Hood (PG-13) (Universal)8. Get Him to the Greek (R) (Universal)9. A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) (Warner)10. Letters to Juliet (PG) (Summit)

PICKS OF THE WEEK

“The Expendables” (R) -- Let’s be clear from jumpstreet: “The Expendables” is a bad movie, unabashedly so, and that’s what makes it so much campy good fun. Sly Stallone and Compa-ny have a ball-bouncingly awesome time in this loud, goofy homage to the One-Man Wrecking Crew flicks of the 1980s. In addition to the cam-eos by Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger, the film also stars Jason Statham, Dolf Lun-dgren, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Steve Austin and Randy Couture. The dialogue is corny, the ex-plosions (and the pecs!) are huge, and the plot is irrelevant. Just pop some corn, crack open a brew, sit back and watch stuff blow up real good.

“Beauty and the Beast” (Two-Disc Diamond Edition) (G) -- Disney’s classic tale of a bookish young woman who tames the heart of a gloomy prince and teaches him to love again has been digitally restored with enhanced picture and sound. The two-disc set includes three versions of the movie: the original theatrical version, the special extended edition, and the original sto-ryboard version. Among the many special fea-tures is a sing-along mode, so you can chime in along with the film.

“The Complete Metropolis” (NR) -- Throughout the years there have been scores of home-vid-eo releases of Fritz Lang’s 1927 science-fiction masterpiece -- all of them incomplete and the transfers usually taken from muddied public-domain prints. Thankfully, a complete print of the film was discovered in Buenos Aires and painstakingly restored by the Murnau Founda-tion -- including 23 minutes of footage thought lost forever. Now, after nearly three-quarters of a century, the public can finally see -- in high definition -- “Metropolis” as it was meant to be experienced.

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¥ It was Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, who made the following sage observation: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I my-self prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” ¥ Snakes are sometimes born with two heads, but they don’t survive long. It seems the heads fight each other for food. ¥ Pregnant women might be particularly interested in the following: The animal that is pregnant the lon-gest is the African elephant, with an average gesta-tion period of 660 days (though some pregnancies can last up to 100 days longer). The record for short-est gestation period is held jointly by three marsupi-als, including the American opossum, which remain pregnant for only 12 to 13 days. ¥ During this season of excess, it might be worth-while to remember that the typical holiday meal contains more than 3,000 calories. It also might be worthwhile to remember that the suggested daily intake of calories for men is 2,500; for women it’s 2,000. ¥ Americans’ collective annual tab for dry-cleaning services comes to approximately $8 billion. ¥ If you’re an arachnophobe, you might not want to read the following tidbit of information: Scientists in Madagascar recently discovered a new species of bark spider that spins webs over rivers and other bodies of water. What makes these webs notewor-thy is that they are the largest ever recorded, mea-suring up to 82 feet across. ¥ Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, let his horse graze on the lawn of the White House.

Thought for the Day: “Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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OUR SOLAR SYSTEM (continued):• Our solar system only has eight planets. Not the nine planets you grew up with. That’s because the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006. • To qualify as a planet, an object needs to orbit the sun, have enough mass to pull itself into a spheri-cal shape, and have cleared out its orbit of other material. It’s this third requirement that Pluto hasn’t fulfilled. Pluto is a fraction of the mass in its orbit, while the other planets are millions of times more massive than everything else in their orbits. • Pluto may have been downgraded from planet to dwarf planet, but guess what? It’s not the only dwarf planet found in our solar system. Three oth-ers have been discovered: Ceres, Eris and Make-make. Dwarf planets are objects that orbit the sun and have enough mass to form a sphere, but they share their orbit with other objects. As telescopes improve, more dwarf planets will probably be dis-covered. There might eventually be more dwarf planets than planets. • Unlike Earth, Saturn is made mostly of hydrogen and helium, so its density is only 0.13 that of Earth. While it has heavier materials in the core, it is the only planet in the solar system that is less dense than water.• Titan is the largest of Saturn’s moons. It is the second largest moon in the solar system. In fact, it is larger than both Mercury and Pluto.• Scientists are particularly interested in Titan be-cause it’s one of the few known moons with its own dense atmosphere. Titan’s atmosphere is also thought to be very similar to what Earth’s at-mosphere was a long time ago. By learning about Titan, we’ll learn about our own planet.• Saturn’s moon Hyperion is shaped sort of like a hamburger patty and rotates chaotically, probably due to a recent collision.• The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Sometimes called minor planets, as-teroids are rocky objects that are the remnants of the solar system when it formed. Over 90,000 as-teroids of various sizes have been found by scien-tists. • Often referred to as the “final frontier” of the so-lar system, the Kuiper Belt, which is a disc-shaped area made up of icy debris, is located at a distance of 7.5- 9.3 billion miles (12 -15 billion kilometers) from the sun.

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Television quiz shows have been around as long as television itself. Actually, quiz shows pre-date TV and were a popular form of entertainment on radio.• “Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour” was one of the first national radio programs to feature con-testants competing for prizes. Other early radio quiz shows included “Professor Quiz” (CBS 1936), which awarded $25 cash prizes to anyone who could stump the professor. A large number of quiz shows appeared on radio in 1937 and 1938. “Pot ‘O Gold” (NBC 1939) gave $1,000 to anyone who answered a telephone call during the show. • The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Federal Com-munications Commission v. American Broadcast-ing Co., Inc. 347 U.S. 284, said that quiz shows were not a form of gambling. This paved the way for their introduction to television. • On June 7, 1955. CBS TV premiered “The $64,000 Question,” the biggest jackpot program in radio-TV history up to that time. With host Hal March, the Tuesday night program drew an amaz-ing 84.8 percent share of the TV audience, a feat unheard of these days. Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen became a national celebrity as an ex-pert on cooking. Joyce Brothers would star as an expert on boxing. • Herb Stempel’s scripted loss on “Twenty-One” to the more-popular Charles Van Doren occurred on December 5, 1956, and involved his deliberately getting the answer to a question about an Academy Award-winning movie wrong. (The correct answer was “Marty,” one of Stempel’s favorite movies.)After his loss, Stempel blew the whistle on the op-eration. Initially, he was dismissed as a sore loser. More evidence of the fix came from “Twenty-One” contestant James Snodgrass, who had sent regis-tered letters to himself containing the advance an-swers. Such evidence was irrefutable.• Quiz shows all but disappeared from prime time American television for decades. Those that con-tinued to air had substantially reduced prizes, and many shows adopted limits on the number of games a player could win (usually five). Quiz shows be-came game shows, shifting focus from knowledge to puzzles and word games. A quiz for big money would not return until ABC premiered “100 Grand” in 1963; it went off the air after just three weeks. • Today, “Jeopardy!” is a popular international tele-vision game show, originally devised by Merv Grif-fin, who also created “Wheel of Fortune.”• Merv Griffin’s first idea for “Jeopardy!” used a board comprising 10 categories with 10 clues each, but after finding that this board could not be filmed easily, he reduced it to two rounds of 30 clues, with five clues each in six categories. Early on, Griffin discarded his original name for the show, “What’s the Question?” after a network executive suggest-ed that the game “need[ed] more jeopardies.”• “Jeopardy!” first aired on NBC from 1964 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979. Its most successful incarnation is the current Alex Trebek-hosted syn-dicated version, which has aired continuously since September 1984.• “Wheel of Fortune” first aired in 1975 on daytime network television. The current version has been syndicated in prime time since September 19, 1983. Its 28th season premiered in 2010. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in Ameri-can television history.

TRIVIA1. GEMSTONES: What color is lapis lazuli?2. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the Pennines mountain range located?3. SCIENCE: The order Hymenoptera would encompass what types of insects?4. RELIGION: Who founded the Christian Sci-ence Church?5. FAMOUS PERSONALITIES: William H. Bon-ney was better known by what name?6. HUMAN ANATOMY: Where is the mitral valve located?7. LANGUAGE: In the United States, what is a more common term for “conscription”?8. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What was the origi-nal function of the schipperke, a Belgian dog breed?9. U.S. STATES: What is the capital of Michi-gan?10. HISTORY: In English history, which mon-arch did Cavaliers support?

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SPORTS QUIZ1. In 2009, New York Yankees became the third A.L. team in the decade to have seven players hit 20 or more home runs in the same season. Name either of the previous two teams to do it.2. When Hideki Matsui had six RBIs in a World Series game for the New York Yankees in 2009, whose record did he tie?3. Who holds the NCAA Division I record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a season?4. In 2009, Orlando’s Dwight Howard became the youngest person to win the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award at 23 years, 4 months. Who had been the youngest?5. Who is the only NHL player to be in the Stan-ley Cup finals three consecutive years (2008-10) with a different team each time?6. Kyle Busch set a NASCAR record in 2010 for most wins in a season in the Nationwide Se-ries. Who had held the former mark with Busch at 10?7. In 2010, tennis player Rafael Nadal won his 18th ATP World Tour Masters 100 tournament title. Whose record did he break?

ANSWERS1. The 2000 Toronto Blue Jays and 2005 Tex-as Rangers.2. Bobby Richardson of the New York Yan-kees, in 1960.3. Ricky Dobbs of Navy had 27 in 2009.4. San Antonio’s Alvin Robertson was 23 years, 9 months old when he won it in 1986.5. Marian Hossa (Pittsburgh, 2008; Detroit, 2009; Chicago, 2010).6. Sam Ard, in 1983.7. Andre Agassi had 17 victories in Masters events.

• Ancient astronomers used to think the Earth was the center of the universe. It wasn’t until the 16th century that Nicolaus Copernicus first presented the idea that the sun was at the center, not the Earth. • All the objects in the solar system orbit the sun in a counter-clockwise direction. This matches the theory that the solar system formed all at once from a cool cloud of hydrogen. As the gas came together, it began to spin, so that the sun collected in the middle, surrounded by an accretion disk of gas and dust. All the planets and other material in the solar system formed within this rotating disk.• Our sun is a typical star, middling in size, but big enough to burn steadily for 10 billion years.• The sun contains 99.8 percent of the mass in the solar system. And the sun is approximately 72 percent hydrogen, so most of the matter in the so-lar system is hydrogen, with the remaining amount being mostly helium, oxygen and carbon. Every-thing else, like metals and rocks, is just a tiny frac-tion of a fraction of the solar system’s mass.• How big is our sun? It has a diameter of 864,000 miles (1,391,000 kilometers), and more than one million Earths could fit into the sun. It is located 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth. • The heat the sun gives us derives from nuclear fusion at its core.• There are only a few stars within 10 light-years of our sun. The closest Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light-years away. Barnard’s Star is 5.9 light-years away; Wolf 359 is 7.8 light-years away; Lalande 21185 is 8.3 light-years away; Sirius is 8.6 light-years away; Luyten 726-8 is 8.7 light-years away; and finally Ross 154 is 9.7 light-years away. • The sun is just one star in 200 billion in our gal-axy, the Milky Way. Doesn’t that give you perspec-tive? Our world is just one planet orbiting one star in a galaxy of 200 billion stars.• So, are we alone? Astronomers now estimate that the universe contains roughly trillions of stars organized into billions of galaxies. • Spacecraft from Earth have visited or orbited every planet in the solar system, and more are on their way to visit some of the dwarf planets. Man has explored the sun, the moon and many aster-oids. And now some of the oldest spacecraft still active — NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts — have al-most reached the sun’s heliosphere.

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