August 23, 2018 Page 5
Green Eggs and Ham Cups
Recipe by www.egglandsbest.com., provided by BPT.
Prep time: 10 minutes • Cook time: 15 minutes • Makes 12 cups
Ingredients
• 7 Eggland’s Best Eggs (large)
• 1 cup fresh spinach, chopped
• 1/4 cup onions, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup broccoli florets, finely
chopped
• 3/4 cups extra lean ham, diced
• Salt, pepper and garlic powder
to taste
• Shredded cheese of your choice
(optional)
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Sauté onions and broccoli over medium heat until soft. Add spinach,
ham and continue cooking until spinach is wilted.
3. In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs and seasonings. Add vegetable
and ham mixture to eggs.
4. Coat 12 muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray and fill each muffin
cup with egg/veggie mixture.
5. Top with shredded cheese.
6. Bake 15-17 minutes or until eggs spring back or toothpick comes
out clean.
7. Cool on a rack and remove from pan. Enjoy warm or room temperature.
*Egg cups can be rewarmed in the microwave or toaster oven if desired.
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Based on Press releases from
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, University of Michigan,
UC Berkeley, and Caltech,
Provided by Bob Eklund
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched
into space from the Kennedy Space Center
August 11, it began its journey to the Sun,
our nearest star. The Parker Solar Probe will
travel almost 90 million miles and eventually
enter through the Sun’s outer atmosphere to
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journey, it will fly closer to the Sun than
any other human-made object.
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instruments aboard the Parker Solar Probe
to conduct different experiments. Some of
these instruments will be protected by a
thick carbon-composite heat shield. However,
others will be more exposed.
The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and
Protons (SWEAP) investigation is the set of
instruments that will directly measure the hot
ionized gas in the solar atmosphere during
the solar encounters. A key instrument on
SWEAP called the Solar Probe Cup (SPC)
was built at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Mass.
The SPC is a small metal device that will
peer around the protective heat shield of the
spacecraft directly at the Sun. It will face
some of the most extreme conditions ever
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allow a sample of the Sun’s atmosphere to
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what type of particles can enter, which is a
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towards the Sun for an encounter, the wind
is directed straight into the cup.
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that range from endangering astronauts
on space walks to impacting the electronics
in communications satellites.
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and helium ions, called alpha particles—are
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alumnus, 91-year-old Eugene Parker (PhD
‘51), who predicted, in 1958, the existence of
a supersonic solar wind—a flow of charged
particles that stream off the Sun, accelerating
at speeds faster than that of sound. •