Asteroid

Mesozoic Era: The dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era lasted about 180 million years, and is divided into three periods, the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. Each of these periods is divided into many epochs and ages. Earth during the Mesozoic Era was much warmer than today, and the planet had no polar ice caps. During the Triassic Period, Pangaea still formed one massive supercontinent. Without much coastline to moderate the continent's interior temperature…

famous Mass Extinction, taking place 65 million years ago. The K/T is the event in which the dinosaurs died in. The cause of this event is debated, however it is widely accepted by most scientists that the K/T extinction was triggered when a giant asteroid or comet struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico killing off close to 80% of life on Earth. This event was totally random and if it…

I have the chance to become the first student astronaut to explore another planet. 1-3 in 600 people a year become an astronaut through NASA in the US. I have been asked if I would accept the task of being the first student astronaut to explore another planet. I will not accept this task. There are three reasons why I will not accept this task; I am not confident in piloting a space ship, space is a spooky place, and space can cause bone loss. The first reason why I will not accept this task is…

The newly formed moon was in a molten state, but within about 100 million years, most of the global "magma ocean" had crystallized, with less-dense rocks floating upward and eventually forming the lunar crust. Now impacts of other asteroids and stuff have hit the moon and created the craters. Structure Earth’s moon has a core, mantle and crust. The solid, iron-rich inner core is 149 miles in radius. It is surrounded by a liquid iron shell 56 miles thick. The crust has a thickness…

Curiosity has always been the leading factor in division making among humanity, traveling, discovering and learning from our experiences to advance our species. If you were to live on a secluded island in the middle of the ocean, unaware of what awaits, if anything, beyond the horizon. Sooner or later your curiosity would get the best of you and eventually you will leave to explore, learn, develop and widen your knowledge of the area around you. The same can be said with Earth’s closest neighbor…

The Kuiper Belt is what contains most of the asteroids, comets, and other floating rocks scientist see today. The Kuiper Belt is a solar system that exists far out of Neptune's orbit. Kuiper Belt also has another name, that is Edgeworth. The Edgeworth, or the Kuiper Belt, is home to three officially recognized dwarf planet we know today. Those three planets are Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Although, Pluto is the most common, it really shows the possibilities this Belt could contain other…

being wasteful; that they are taking these things for granted. People seldom realize that the endless supply of food, water, electricity, and sunlight that they have grown used to could be taken at any moment. In the novel, This World We Live In, an asteroid hits the moon, pushing it closer to the Earth. A dark fog falls upon the world and the summer sky is a distant memory at best. 10 minutes of electricity is a miracle. Eating any more than one meal a day is a luxury. Living becomes harder as…

pull of Saturn as like Jupiter Saturn was closer to the centre of the Solar System so it had more effect on Jupiter. As Jupiter travelled inwards it gently nudged the Asteroid belt essentially switching places with it, and then as Jupiter went further out it encountered an area of icy objects and pushed many of them into the Asteroid belt. The evidence behind this theory is Mars itself, according to the inner planets Mars should be a lot larger than in currently is. So were did all the extra…

paragraph 2 – Characters Main Characters: The Little Prince – a mysterious, charming extraterrestrial who the author believes to inhabit asteroid B-612. The prince leaves his planet because he gets suffocated by the clamorousness and vanity of his friend, the rose. He is a sociable child who is unimpressed by the attitude of grown-ups. During his travels to other asteroids, he misses his rose. While on earth, he realizes that his rose if the most important in the world for him because it is…

The Jupiter Adventures At long last the Jupiter Spacecraft Voyager has finished its exploration of the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 19, 1989. It has been through a lot to get to the Jovian system. Even though it had malfunctions in mechanical problems the space probe still managed to survive and keep going on. Very little is known about the outside world, (space) but the discoveries that the Galilean probe has brought back will…