Oort cloud

NASA’S Dawn Spacecraft is closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres, which meeks out its lonely existence out in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, that ring slowly spinning beyond the inner planets’ orbits, separating us from the gas giants, the oort cloud, and that vast emptiness beyond. However, Dawn’s approach of Ceres has already been so Chock Full of odd surprises that astronomers are unsure what to make of the dwarf planet. For starters, NASA aired a video last Thursday limning a…

explanations as to why the climate changed, why the sediment not only has iridium but also shock quartz, other physical evidence such as the found crater, and evidence with the line up of the time frames between the mass extinctions and when the Oort Clouds of Comets happen. Out of all the hypothesis the Alverez Hypothesis has the most evidence to back it up…

Solar System Explanation The parts of the solar system are the Sun, Planets, the Kuiper Belt(meteors), the Main Belt(asteroids), comets, dwarf planets, and moons. The sun is located in the center of the universe and all of the other objects orbit around it. The sun only rotates about every 25-36 Earth days. The sun is the closest star and a heat source for almost all the planets. All of the planets orbit around the sun but all at different paces. For example, It takes Earth 365 days to orbit…

the sun and are also inside of the asteroid belt. The surface of terrestrial planets are very rocky and contain metal. It is believed that our planets form from nebulas. A nebula is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. According to Nola Taylor Redd contributor of space.com “4.6 years ago, the solar system was a cloud of dust and gas know as a solar nebula. With the rise of the sun, the remaining material began to clump up. Small particles drew together, bound by the force of gravity, into…

the planet Venus. (It is the hottest planet at 867 degrees Fahrenheit and glows a dull red because the rocks on the surface are so hot) The brightest star in the sky, (after our sun) is Sirius which is in the Andromeda galaxy, appearing as a fuzzy cloud. It is the most distant object visible to the naked eye and is 2.9 million light-years away. In case you are a weird freak like me, here are also a few fun facts. In 1770, the comet Lexell passed the earth at such close range that it’s “head”…

Joseph P. Valentine Prof. Paden Eng. 111 (4243) 11/3/16 Earth 2.0 We’ve spent a lot of time here on Earth; rather, all of it. We’ve grown so much: learning to walk, talk, make friends, build cities, start wars, and make bombs that can cleanse entire planets of life. This is our home. Sadly, we can’t live here forever. The concept of expanding our domain isn’t just about exotic Martian vacations or low-gravity sports. Earth may not be habitable forever. The ever-impending “consequences” of…

How old is our universe really? For years there has been a race to discover the Solar System’s true age. For thousands of years, people have thought the Solar System and everything inside it to be created only several thousand years ago. Whereas many people now days have discovered that there is a considerable amount of evidence to suspect the Solar System is actually billions of years old. Fairly recent discovers have brought to light that there is also counter evidence to disprove the billion…