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How long can hot air balloons be in the air for?
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What is a manometer?
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How does the force of gravity on Jupiter compare to the force of gravity on Earth?
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How does a plane get off the ground, and how does it conserve its fuel in the sky?
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Who is Isaac Newton?
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What force makes smaller objects orbit larger objects in space?
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Does Neptune have seasons and how often do they change?
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Is air the same everywhere?
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Does Pluto follow Kepler’s Second Law?
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When a rocket flies away from Earth, why does the force needed to keep it accelerating decrease?
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