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Monday 19 March 2012

There are more than planets in space

There are more than planets in space there  are dangerous things like comets, meteorites and asteroids that can be zooming anywhere in space.  The book I read is an article on space. First the author wrote what was a comet. A comet is a rock and dust that shoots out to the sun with the comets’ tail pointing away from the sun. As the comet gets closer to the sun it heats up and starts to glow very brightly around the head.
When the comet gets hotter and hotter it grows a bright tail too. A comet’s tail can thousands of kilometres long.The tail is made of gas.
There are most asteroids that travel around the blazing sun in a place named the asteroid belt. Some asteroids come close to earth they can even bump into it.
The asteroid belt is a very dangerous place for spaceships to fly through.There are many huge asteroids that can crash into them.
A meteor looks like a whizzing star through the sky. Some people call it a shooting star. Actually it is NOT a shooting star. It is a piece of rock or dust falling towards earth.     
While the rock or dust falls towards earth it burns up in the air and glows brightly. Sometimes a meteor reaches the ground without being burned up at all.Then it it is a meteorite.Some meteorites may have been broken off mars or the moon.
I loved reading this article because of it gave me lots of interesting information on space.  

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