Asteroid

the days. In the first chapter of the second part, Via tells us that Auggie is the center of attention. The way Via decribes this by saying, “August is the Sun. Me, Mom, and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroid and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.” (page 82). When Via says, “The galaxy is changing. Planets are falling out of alignment.” (page 83). What Via meant is that Auggie is going to school, so…

child chosen to go to battle school, a school in space, to fight in the next bugger war. Ender flies through the ranks and becomes the greatest commander in the school. He graduates early and is brought to command school on a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. He is tricked into destroying the bugger species through “simulations” that turned out to be real. Ender feels bad and finds the last bugger eggs in the universe. A theme to the story is that people are controlling, but an even bigger one…

Recent revelations in the news over NASA finding “liquid” water on Mars has gotten many people excited about the possibility of sending humans to live on the planet, without much insight into the actual reasons why that idea is still not currently feasible. A planet must have much more than just water in order to be a habitable place, and these factors are often overlooked, in fact the same factors affecting the water supply on Mars are also the factors that factors behind the other reasons it…

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is the farthest planet from Earth and not visible to the naked human eye, but it is through a telescope that the planet’s most outstanding features can be seen: Saturn’s rings. Although the other gas giants in the solar system, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, also have rings, those of Saturn are without a doubt the most extraordinary. Saturn is a gas giant made up of mostly hydrogen and helium gas,…

Given the incredible advancements in technology in the past decade alone, it’s only natural that mankind would look to the final frontier once again. While considering the question of Mars colonization, we, as a society must consider cost factors of commuting and terraforming. The question of funding arises, exposing an even bigger dilemma of international cooperation. The factors bolstering humans to colonize are balanced by ethical and economic tethers that keep us here on Earth. Before we…

Seaghan Kinneen 8.5 billion miles from the Sun, over ninety-one times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, stands the newest addition to the Solar System. 2014 UZ224, located some 4.83 billion miles beyond Pluto, joined Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and the aforementioned Pluto, as the most recently discovered Solar System Dwarf Planet. To understand the definition of a Dwarf Planet, one must understand the definition of a regular planet. In a 2006 assembly that has gained notoriety…

The last frontier. There are over 125 billion galaxies (Bond). And out of countless of planets, only 1 can hold life? Well, we couldn't tell you if there are any other planets with life out there because we have only explored less than .5 percent of space. This is truly why space is truly the last frontier and will because of NASA’s mediocre funding. The Space Race didn't just prove that the United states can do anything we put our minds too. It also proved that NASA’s job goes way beyond just…

Space. More than just stars and stuff. Space is awesome. Both in scale and my opinion. Humans have dreamed of space travel, used stars for navigation and just generally drooled over the sky for thousands of years. There is a void surrounding us that is so large we call it “space”. But it’s not an empty, cavernous expanse, it’s filled with a multitude of stuff: from stars to planets, comets to black holes, there’s even a Super Sized Space Puddle.[1] Yet, some people aren’t interested in what is…

Domestication of plants leads to further disturbance of other non-human species. Because plant domestication increases detrimental herbivore activities, humans started to utilize more chemicals. To control the pest population and increase crop yield, humans use chemically charged pesticides and fertilizers. The use of pesticides creates a vicious cycle between the domesticated plants and the herbivores. When farmers use pesticides, farmers are encouraging the pests to be more resilient to the…

also known as the lunar maria, impact craters. The lunar maria, evidence of lava flow, takes up about 45% of the lunar surface; in addition, the moon’s surface is also composed of regolith. A layer of powdery soil with scattered rocks created by asteroid impacts. Evidence on the moon’s surface of extinct volcanoes, points to the fact that there were once active volcanoes that had once erupted on the moon when the moon had formed, before stopping 3.8 million years ago into an icy-cold planet…