Oh wow a shooting star! Did you know that shooting stars are actually meteors that are burning up in the atmosphere
My friend T'Sean said that Earth was gonna get hit by a meteorite one day. Is that true??
While it is possible for Earth to be hit by space debris, a METEORITE is a METEOR that made it through the atmosphere(burned up) and hit the ground. A METEOROID would be much bigger and is outside of Earth's atmosphere.
Let's ask SuperComputer! Hey computer, do you know if earth will be hit by a meteorite anytime soon?
Put on your special suits and take a little space walk so that you can learn a little more about the different names we have for things in space and the difference between them.
Oh wow those are a lot of different names!! What others are there.?
So where to, Roderick? A JOVIAN PLANET? A TERRESTRIAL one?
The Jovian Planets are our outer planets. They're the larger and the gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn. TERRESTRIALS are the exact opposite.
Cool! Let's go there! So to Saturn. That's the one with the rings right
What are those?
Saturn being a Jovian planet, means that it has a much longer ORBIT
No technically the orbit is how long a year is on the planet. It's how long it takes for the planet to go around the sun
Is that how long the day is on a planet?
We gotta stay away from the Roche Limit of Saturn. It's the line where if you're within it you'll be destroyed and pulled in the planet's grav. pull.
A Roche limit seems pretty dangerous!!
That, Roderick is a COMET. A dirty snowball people call it. It's a big ball of ice and other stuff
CeCe! What's that??
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