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Planet Earth!

The Home world and birth place of Humanity!

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Why is Pluto no longer defined as a Planet For a long time, we thought Pluto was unique in the Kuiper Belt. But as astronomers discovered more and more about the Kuiper Belt (and the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter), we learned that there are lots of objects like Pluto. More like Pluto, in some ways, than Pluto is like the other planets. Finding all these new objects, it became necessary for astronomers to get more specific about what we mean by the word "planet," and figure out which ca
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Europa is the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System and Jupiter’s fourth-largest satellite. Despite its cracked and discolored appearance, it is the smoothest solid object in the Solar System; its highest peaks, of which there are few, only reach a few hundred meters tall, and large craters are rare. The crisscrossed streaks and splotches that run across the terrain are probably mostly due to relatively shallow fractures and different compositions of the ground, not the enormous canyons present
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One thing that has always pickled my mind when I thought about space was, Are we truely alone? Were we naturally created here on this planet? Is religion the answer to all our questons or is science? Here are some of my 2 cents on those questions. If the question “ are we truly alone? “; is asked then I say, NO; We are not truely alone as we are not the only living creature that exist we have seen many other fourms of bacterial life matter either in a comotosis statis or a thriving form of ba
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