Comets And Asteroids

Part I of Essay
English 11R-9 Elberth A quick look at the scarred face of the moon provides evidence enough to see that space is not an empty place. Small bodies of rock and frozen materials are traveling around space at all times. As far as scientists can tell, they have been since th ....

Part II of Essay
.... asteroids. About 10 percent are bound to hit earth eventually. Asteroids ranging from fine dust, to house size rocks make up the belt around Saturn, and the belt on the outside of the orbit of Mars. These are pieces of larger rocks that were crashed into the remaining pieces after millions of years of crashes. Each ring system has distinctive features. Jupiter's rings are tenuous and made mainly of dark particles the size of those in cigarette smoke. The bright rings of Saturn are made of mainly frozen water in the form of snowballs and c ....