Friday, October 21, 2011

Current event 10 (New solar system)

There are many different solar systems, in our universe, we know this as a fact, but a new NASA telescope has detected another solar system, I will be talking about this new solar system.

NASA's “Spitzer Space Telescope” has detected signs of lots icy bodies raining in an alien solar system. The downpour is our own solar system billions years ago during a time known as the "Late Heavy Bombardment," which may have brought water and other life forming ingredients to Earth.

During this time, comets and other frosty objects that were shot out from the outer solar system smacked and damaged some of the inner planets. The hail hit our moon and due to that our moon produced large amounts of dust.

Now “theSpitzer” has spotted a band of dust around a star in the northern sky called “Eta Corvi” that has the same the materialof an obliterated giant comet. This dust is located close enough to the “Eta Corvi” that Earth like worlds could exist, which could lead to a collision t between a planet and comets. The “Eta Corvi” system is approximately one billion years old, which researchers think is about the “right age for such a hailstorm.”

1 comment:

  1. Brin, this is a very interesting topic. A new theory indeed of how we all came to planet Earth. However, you only need one paragraph about the article, one paragraph as a reflection and analysis of the information the article presents. Be sure that you have the author of the article, when they wrote it, and the link to it.

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