Does The Solar System Really Cause An Asteroid?

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65 million years ago, almost 70 percent of the life on Earth died. The most possible reason of why this happen is an asteroid impact. Many people often confuse asteroid with meteor and comet. The differences between these three is that comet is a giant ball of dirty ice flying through space, melt by the heat of the sun and leaving a tail, meteor is anything that fall into our atmosphere and burns up leaving a tail of fire and dust and, asteroid is a rock that is orbiting the sun. Most of the Asteroid are found in the asteroid belt which is in between Jupiter and Mars. Now a lot of people often question the existence of asteroid and the most asked questions is why are they there? What purpose do they fulfill in the solar system? And what are …show more content…

Hencke discover another one and name it Astraea, and since then more and more asteroid is discover. Soon people realize that there is no planet in between Mars and Jupiter but a belt of asteroid. Now we finish with the history of asteroid we can start focusing more on asteroid itself. The name asteroid came from William Herschel who is an astronomer, he think that Ceres and Pallas should be in another category rather than being call as a planet. “Asteroid which is derived from the Greek for “star-like”… made sense: The space rocks often looked like little points of light when see through the telescopes.” (Wall, 1) Asteroid have been around since the birth of the solar system. “They are the remnant debris from the formation of the inner solar system…the original materials and the mechanisms which formed the terrestrial planets.” (Badescu, 35). There are many types of asteroids which are made up by different substances, Astronomer are able to determine the substances that made the asteroid by how much light it reflect from the sun and here is what they found “It appears that the compositions of asteroids vary with their distances from the …show more content…

However, people like astronomer knew that this can happen and an asteroid impact is one of the most likely way that the earth will end in and it is one of the most unpredictable, because astronomer found asteroid out there that is coming toward earth but some are hidden somewhere that astronomer cannot see, like

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