The four hour Day
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Do you ever feel there aren’t enough hours in a day? The dwarf planet Haumea takes approximately four hours to… Read More
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Cosmic Snowballs
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Often called “dirty snowballs”, comets are composed of frozen gases, rock and dust roughly the size of a small town…. Read More
Fly me to the moon
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Neither Mercury nor Venus have moons. Scientists do not know why Venus doesn’t have a moon, but any object pulled… Read More
The 5 dwarves
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When Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, it became the largest of 5 known dwarf planets in… Read More
As fast as the wind
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Major hurricanes begin at sustained wind speeds of ~200km/h, at which point well-built houses may incur removal of roof decking,… Read More
The Great Red Spot
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Discovered more than 400 years ago, the biggest active storm in our solar system is on Jupiter. Roughly 150 years… Read More