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In the past it has happened that some meteorites are so big and so heavy that they violently hit the

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Most asteroids orbit very far from the Earth, between Mars and Jupiter. Some debris however or dust released by the

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From time to time we see comets in the sky. Like asteroids, they are large, dusty, icy rocks several hundred

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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

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Until 2006 it was the last planet of the solar system. It belongs today to the family of the dwarf

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Neptune has 14 known moons, which are named for minor water deities in Greek mythology. By far the largest of

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Neptune is invisible to the naked eye. It was discovered in 1846 by Urbain Le Verrier because something disrupted the

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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.

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We speak of a system because there is not only one ring but countless, almost an infinity. The rings of

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Why do we need scientific names for things? Usually, one of two reasons. Either, for an international standard across languages,