Asteroids and comets have things in common, but their differences aren’t few, and, distinguish between these two celestial bodies can lead to confusion. Composition TheRead More
Category: Solar System
Normally, we use anyone of these names indistinguishably. Even if they are very similar names, they all refer to different situations. In essence, these threeRead More
Since many years from now, the most popular hypothesis to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was the one of aRead More
For incredible it may seem, each year the Earth loses much mass. This mass loss I caused by different factors, each one with a differentRead More
Millions of years ago, the Moon was 18 times nearer from the Earth than it is in our days, and its apparent size in theRead More
Not all the days, in the planets of the solar system, have the same duration, as a day corresponds to the time that a planetRead More
We all know that one day on the Earth lasts for 24 hours and that a year has 365 days (or 366 in a leapRead More
The International Space Spatial is a spatial station where astronauts live for 6 months of the year. In the International Space Station (ISS) the astronautsRead More
The asteroids are mostly concentrated in specific places of the solar system, as the known asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt (farther away from Neptune’s orbit),Read More
This is an impossible situation. The Earth can’t stop rotating suddenly, but, if it did, the consequences would be disastrous. However, imagining that the EarthRead More