The Unbelievable Universe
Carter Dyke
The Milky Way
Do you know what happens in space? Well, a
lot of things happen in space. Most things
happen all the sudden, or it's been there still
for billions of years! In space there’s planets,
solar systems,and galaxies. This article will talk
about 3 things, atmospheres, ejections in
space, and planets with moons.”
Ejections in Space
In space there are millions of planets, stars,
solar systems, galaxies, and more, but the
most common is ejections. Ejections are things
like comets, meteors, and asteroids.
Some ejections are comets, comets are
balls of ice that fly through space. One famous
comet is called the Halley’s Comet. It is famous
because it is a comet that comes around every
30 to 40 years. It has also been a comet for at
least 2,000 years! Comets are very strange,
sometimes a comet will create two tails! In
1997, there was a comet named, Comet HaleBopp, it had created two tails and was recorded
by a space center. A comet's tail can be up to
one million miles long!
Some other ejection forms are
asteroids. Asteroids are big pieces of rock that
got close to a planet and passed by at really fast
speeds, or hit the planet. One famous asteroid
hit Greenland 10,000 years ago and weighs 34
tons. A group of asteroids long ago formed a
ring of asteroids around the Sun, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Earth, and Earth's moon. It’s called
the Asteroid Belt. Some scientist say that Mars's
moons, Phobos, and Deimos, because of their
size, may have been asteroids from the
Asteroid Belt.
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