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==Background Information on Dark Matter==
 
==Background Information on Dark Matter==
===Questions on the Web===
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===Questions for the Web===
 
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|1. How can we be sure dark matter exists?
 
|1. How can we be sure dark matter exists?
 
|[http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dark_matter.html Gas Observations]
 
|[http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dark_matter.html Gas Observations]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve Galaxy Rotation Curves]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve Galaxy Rotation Curves]
[http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/dark-matter1.htm Ordinary Matter]
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[http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~ger/ASTRO-110_sp08/Lecture28_DarkMatter.pdf Gravitational Lensing]
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[http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/ Open/Expanding Universe]
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[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/dark_matter.html Missing Mass]
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|2. What are the possible candidates for the particles that actually make up dark matter?
 
|2. What are the possible candidates for the particles that actually make up dark matter?
|[http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/DM/ MACHOs, WIMPS]
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|[http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/DM/ MACHOs, WIMPs]
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[http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/dark-matter1.htm Ordinary Matter]
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[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6021/1132.full Super-symmetric Particles]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightest_Supersymmetric_Particle Neutralinos]
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|3. What are the properties of WIMPs?
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralino The Neutralino]
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|4. What onging research is being done to detect and experiment with dark matter?
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|[http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/25429 Axion research]
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[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/science/space/14dark.html liquid Xenon research]
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|5. Where are all the super-symmetric particles?
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