Most asteroids orbit very far from the Earth, between Mars and Jupiter. Some debris however or dust released by the tail of comets can cross the Earth at the chance…
From time to time we see comets in the sky. Like asteroids, they are large, dusty, icy rocks several hundred meters long and a few kilometers in diameter. There are…
225088 Gonggong
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225088 Gonggong (2007 OR10) discovered on January 8, 2005 by Michael Brown and his team thanks to the 1.26 m telescope of Mount Palomar, it is also a dwarf planet. In…
The Dwarf Planet, Pluto
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Until 2006 it was the last planet of the solar system. It belongs today to the family of the dwarf planets because its characteristics are too different from those of…
Moons of Neptune
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Neptune has 14 known moons, which are named for minor water deities in Greek mythology. By far the largest of them is Triton, discovered by William Lassell on October 10,…
The Blue Planet
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Neptune is invisible to the naked eye. It was discovered in 1846 by Urbain Le Verrier because something disrupted the orbit of Uranus. The astronomer then made calculations and located…
The Georgian Planet
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. This planet is almost 5 times bigger than Earth and 14.5 heavier. It is about 2.9 billion km from the Sun, so…