How impact craters are formed
This sounds a bit like a no-brainer really; the asteroid or comet crosses the path of Earth and hits the Earth’s surface causing an impact crater. That’s it isn’t it? No, nothing in life is quite as...
View ArticleBig and Small Asteroids and Their Formation
The solar system formed from dust grains and eventually built up into planets. On the way to making planets some dust grains only formed up to a small size (compared to a planet) and remain at this...
View ArticleInterplanetary Dust Our Minute Friend
It is black out there, very black. In between the specks of light called stars and in between the galaxies there is just a lot of black. That may be true to our eyes but it is not true at all. In the...
View ArticleCeres, Dwarf Planet or Asteroid?
In the previous post I made a mistake about Ceres and its classification as an asteroid or dwarf planet. It’s been a topic of debate for some time, the debate originating with Pluto and its...
View ArticleAll about Meteorites
Meteors streak through the air giving us a display that can be not only beautiful but awe-inspiring as well. This isn’t all they give us as they carry to us a wealth of information from the solar...
View ArticleKuiper Belt Discovery, Classification, Shape and Size.
The Kuiper belt is a region beyond Neptune that is full of comets, asteroids and other debris. It circles the solar system and has always been a little bit of a mystery as it is so far away and hard to...
View ArticleJupiter Has Another Impact
Just the other month Jupiter was hit by something, possibly an asteroid, and this month seems to be just the same. An amateur astronomer yesterday noticed a large flash when looking at Jupiter which...
View ArticleHow Did Those First Organic Molecules Get to Earth?
How did life start? You would be talking to a Nobel prize winner if I could tell you that. Unfortunately nobody knows. There are a few theories around and a few advances have been made in this field...
View ArticleHow Did the Earth Get It’s Water?
How did the Earth come to possess water? Did some alien ship have too much and dump it or is there some simpler explanation? Through a process that lasted millions of years the Earth was made from a...
View ArticleAn Asteroid to Look Out For…
Asteroids and comets are flying around our solar system in all sorts of orbits and it’s only a matter of time until they hit the earth although there is rather a large amount of space that they can fly...
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