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Glossary
- DNA
- Acid from the nucleus of living cells, essential component of chromosomes and carrier of genetic characteristics.
- Trajectory calculation
- Trajectory calculation is when we seek to know where an object will pass and where it will arrive after leaving a place.
- Y chromosome
- It is the male sex chromosome.
- Nuclear fission
- Fission is the splitting of a heavy atom into lighter atoms during the collision between an atom and a neutron.
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
- It is the federal agency responsible for most of the United States' civilian space program.
- Particle physics
- It is the branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, as well as their interactions.
- Computer program
- It is a set of instructions and operations intended to be executed by a computer.
- Pulsars
- These small, very dense dead stars emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of beams that sweep through space at regular intervals, like cosmic lighthouses.
- Space rendezvous
- It is an organized meeting in space between spacecraft, or between a spacecraft and a celestial object at a relative velocity of zero or very low.
- Cubic root
- A mathematical concept that concerns numbers, is therefore equal to its real cubic root multiplied twice by itself.
- Rehabilitation
- Restore to their rights, make them regain the esteem, the consideration they had lost.
- Shell structure of the atomic nucleus
- In an atom, electrons are distributed in shells around the nucleus, with successive shells being increasingly distant from the nucleus.
