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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

 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                                   

 Canyonlands National Park has a big canyon were we can drive. It even has the Colorado River,and it has an arch called Mesa Arch There are more arches forming they will be a arches in million years. Canyonlands National Park was made in 1964, that is about 57 years ago.It is also like a twin with Arches National Park because I went there to find out there is a another national park. Here are some pictures we took.

Arches National Park has a lot of arches and the lowest elevation point is the v isitor center.  The v isitor c enter  is  4,085 feet above sea level and the highest  elevation is in  Elephant Butte which is  5,653 feet above sea level. Arches National Park was made in 1971 that was about 50 years ago. If you go there right now you will see arches forming. They even put boards to tell how they form. Here are some  pictures we took.

 I am going to talk about Death Valley National Park.Death Valley is the hottest place in America. It even has a place named Bad Water Basin, the lowest place for sea level in the world. Death Valley's temperatures can be 134 degrees fahrenheit or 56.7 degrees celsius. Death Valley has a lot of mountains. I went to Death Valley 2 times, once when I was 2 and once when I was 6. Here is some of my pictures we took.

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