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    What Is Pluto?

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    Scientists have a theory that it's possible that Pluto mAY have rings. The idea comes from the fact that Pluto has two tiny moons, these moons are Nix and Hydra. They're just a few km away and have very little gravity. So any micrometeoroid on these moons will make material go up into orbit around Pluto. Pluto's distance from the Sun is 3.67 billion miles. Pluto follows a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun. At the closest point of its orbit, called perihelion, Pluto gets to within 4

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    not struggle in their devotion. They walked the path of their own enlightenment, ask about it, wonder how to have time for it. The High Initiates of Isis were trained from a young age to walk in rhythm with the seasons and flow with the tides of the moon. It simply was, what was. It was the only way of life they knew. They were witnessed as living embodiments of the Goddess herself. Those who witnessed the beauty of these women, referred them. These women were the standards. They were beings of radiant

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    With all the hype surrounding the Mercury transit doomsday theory, it almost seems that evil aliens exist on the planet itself. Apparently, that may not seem as outlandish as it sounds. NASA has discovered that life may be possible on the planet although it would hardly be glamorous. MERCURY TRANSIT SCARES THE WORLD About 13 times a century, Mercury passes between the Earth and the Sun. The beautiful and rare occurrence was caught on film and to the surprise of many, we on Earth still exist. There

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    planet. It orbits in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. Pluto primarily consists of ice and rock like other objects in the Kuiper belt. Its is only about one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume, even though it is not really much smaller compared to it. Pluto has five known moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Pluto was discovered by a muggle sientist Clyde Tombaugh back in 1930. Up to year 2005 Pluto was considered to be the ninth planet

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    Amongst the many vast planets in our galaxies, with many different characteristics and attributes, there is just one that stands out in the midst of all the others, Corot-7B. This planet is the smallest exoplanet that has been found outside of our solar system that orbits another star. This fascinating planet has a bright yellow color and is about twice the size of Earth and practically flows lava and rocks. This planet has temperatures ranging from 3,300 to 4,700 degrees Fahrenheit, literally making

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    Project 206 Project

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    Every sense the meteor right hit russia in 2013 scientist have been trying to create a machine that redirects very large meteorites.Scientist and engineers Dmuari franklin , and ty’ Ron young had been building a machine called 260 , but they weren't sure how long it would be until it was finished. They had been working on project 206 which was a asteroid redirector for 17 years but only completed it about 73 % which could approximately push an asteroid that weighed about 23 tons . Now Dmuari and

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    Even though the inner and outer planets are very similar, they also have quite a few differences.Even though the inner and outer planets may have the same orbit plane and they both do not use their own light they are also different in size and their composition. The inner planets were known by the ancients, however, the outer planets were not. All of the inner planets were known and two of the outer planets were found. The inner planets were known for thousands of years before Christ was born. The

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    In the “Seven Minutes of Terror, Eight Years of Ingenuity” by ReadWorks discusses about the idea of traveling to space and the scientist working together to make this possible. ReadWorks discuss the people, ideas of getting to space, and reason why there was a to getting to people off earth. It demonstrates how these people worked, especially together day in and day out. They support their claim by first explaining “Many scientists spent years working together to solve the problem. They drew and

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    For many years the human has wanted to colonize other planets and one of those planets is Mars.Mars is the Roman god of war and he is compared to blood. Mars is also called the red planet by its pink tones. Mars is the fourth planet in the Solar System. The distance from the Earth to Mars depends on the opposition on Mars at the time of opposition is 102 million kilometers. If the opposition happens in the Perihelion the distance at the time of the opposition is 59 million kilometers. Mars is a

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    ever increasing studies on the subject, circumstances for making the moon have been hypothesized. According to the article three scenarios specifically are being examined, “One argues for a one big splat early in solar-system history; a second envisions a score of lesser blows that built up the Moon over time; and a third suggests water was involved.” Despite what most people think, we still have yet to truly pin point how our moon was formed, there’s even still a lot of discussion on how Earth itself

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