Comets And Asteroids
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English 11R-9
Elberth
A quick look at the scarred face of the moon provides evidence
enough to see that space is not an empty place. Small bodies of rock and
frozen materials are traveling around space at all times. As far as
scientists can tell, they have been since the dawn of time. These sp ....
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.... that travel in a path near the earth, and they are actually
called, "near-earth" asteroids. About 10 percent are bound to hit earth
eventually.
Asteroids ranging from fine dust, to house size rocks make up the
belt around Saturn, and the belt on the outside of the orbit of Mars.
These are pieces of larger rocks that were crashed into the remaining
pieces after millions of years of crashes.
Each ring system has distinctive features. Jupiter's rings are
tenuous and made mainly of dark particle ....
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