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Kuiper Belt

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 Today I am going to talk about the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt contains more than hundreds of thousands small ice chunks  worldlets larger than 62.14 miles (100 kilometers). These are comets that orbit the sun every 200 years or less. Here is a pictures I found. Source:  space-facts.com

Asteroid Belt

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 Today I am going to talk about the asteroid belt.The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter. The belt was founded by  Jo hann Titius an  18th century astronomer. He made it as a  planet  but then more  astronomer found more asteroid and made them as a  planet . But then they found a lot of planets so then they made the planets asteroid and made the asteroid belt. Here is a picture I found. Source:  img2.wikia.nocookie.net                                   

SATURN JUPITER CONJUNCTION

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Jupiter - Saturn conjunctions  happen every 20 years; the last one was in the year 2000.  Today I saw this via telescope from Chabot Space center/ It was an hour long live explanation of the conjunction here are some shot from chabot space zoom session. this where where saturn and jupiter looked as one planet SOURCE: time and date.com SOURCE: BBC Space SOURCE: BBC Space