The asteroid Hygiea may qualify as a dwarf planet — and it could steal the title of the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system--
Astronomers have captured high-resolution imagery of Hygiea, the fourth largest rock in the Asteroid Belt . And low and behold, Hygiea is spherical in shape! Videos for Asteroid Hygiea May Be The Smallest 1:02 This Asteroid May Actually Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in Solar System MSN!! That's a pretty important dwarf-planet marker, and the only one Hygiea was missing until now.
Asteroids boast a variety of shapes, but the rounded shape of dwarf planets shows that they had enough mass for its own gravity to pull it into this round shape! 0:27 Large Asteroid Could Be Reclassified As New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System YouTube!! Hygiea already met the other requirements for dwarf-planet classification since it orbits the sun, is not a moon orbiting another planet and has not cleared other objects out of its own orbit.
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Quite a lot has been going on:
In a Distant Galaxy, Colliding Exoplanets Are Upending What We Knew About Solar System Formation
"This is a rare opportunity to study catastrophic collisions occurring late in a planetary system's history," Alycia Weinberger, a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and author of a recent paper on the collision, said in a statement .
Clouds of dust are ubiquitous in space. Planets form when the dust particles floating around young stars clump together and grow over millions of years into large, gravitationally dense objects! Hygiea may be the solar system's smallest dwarf planet ...www.sciencenews.org /article/ hygiea - ...planet The asteroid belt object known as Hygiea may be the new baby of the dwarf planet family. Hygiea , currently classified as an asteroid , already met three of four requirements for dwarf planet status ...!! By the time planets settle into their orbits around a star, much of the smaller particles of dust and debris in the environment have either been pulled into the star as fuel, or swept away by solar winds into a ring of schmutz on the solar system's cold outer edges.
Our solar system's frigid Kuiper Belt , which stretches for hundreds of millions of miles beyond the orbit of Neptune and contains thousands of rocky objects (including the dwarf planet Pluto), is a prime example of this. The dust, asteroids and planetoids out there are extremely cold, due to their distance from the sun.
This is the closest solar system to Earth containing multiple planets - CNN
(CNN) Just 11 light years from earth is the GJ 15 A star system with two planets orbiting a red-dwarf star. This makes it the closest solar system to Earth that contains multiple planets.
Total Shade Solar System | Alternative Energy Production Product Release
Total Shade Inc., an industry leader with existing patents that reduce heat transfer beyond windows, is set to excite the market again with its latest product launch.
CHICAGO , Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Shade Inc. is launching a product that will revolutionize the entire solar industry and will enhance architectural options within skyscraper design and utilization.
Traditional Skyscrapers are some of the world's most energy-hungry buildings. One tower alone can draw 1,000,000 Kilowatt hours per month.
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Chicago's Lake Point Tower has 13,950 windows, each one could be equipped with a Total Shade Solar System! Asteroid Hygiea May Be Solar System's Smallest Dwarf Planet gizmodo.com ...asteroid - ...smallest -1839413360 Mysterious Asteroid May Actually Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System ...Hygiea is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ...Hygiea would supplant Ceres as the ...!! As the sun shines on the building, collectors built in, to every window shade would convert the sun's rays into electricity! Asteroid Hygiea May Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the .../122866595 The asteroid Hygiea may qualify as a dwarf planet — and it could steal the title of the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system! Astronomers have captured high-resolution imagery of Hygiea , the fourth largest rock in the Asteroid Belt.!! Electricity is then collected through an integrated wire grid and directed to a central control room, creating more than enough power to fully self-operate. Which would make it the world's first Net-Zero Building.
Other things to check out:
EYES TO THE SKY: Worldview: Origin of our Sun, solar system, ourselves |
Mount Washington — During the dark time of year here in the Northeast, our visual environment is more of starry skies than earthly phenomena. In this "Eyes to the Sky," as in a post a few weeks ago, I offer you the opportunity to reflect on the natural world as revealed to us by astronomers and astrophotographers. I have the pleasure of presenting the words and images of astrophotographer Terry Hancock, the creator of "Fly Like an Eagle," the nebula image featured above.
On another tack, Terry continues, "The field of astronomy has always held a power over the imagination that is unique among scientific disciplines, but modern technology has allowed us to explore the wonders of the night sky like never before and for the first time in history this incredible hobby is genuinely accessible. On both the amateur and professional levels there is now access to equipment that represents a cost and quality unlike anything we have ever seen, but even for the most well-equipped astronomer there is no substitute for clear, dark skies."
NASA Needs to Update Its Rules to Keep Our Solar System Clean
NASA published a response to the Planetary Protection Recommendations, and aims to rethink its approach to ensure cleaner and safer missions.
NASA has been following the same guidelines to prevent contamination spreading from space onto our planet for the past 50 years.
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Planetary protection is meant to prevent or minimize biological contamination in our solar system. The aim is to limit the number of microbes we send into space and to other planets, so as to ensure we're able to study these areas in their natural habitats.
It's not all about protecting other planets and studies in space, though. Planetary protection is also meant to protect our Earth from outside contaminants.
Tune into the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board teleconference as they discuss findings and recommendations to protect the solar system from contamination as the face of #space exploration changes - TODAY at 3:30pm EDT https://t.co/tFtuz6OTqI via @NASA pic.twitter.com/cjxOOCgWhW
This very, very cool: The asteroid Hygiea is round! And the image of it is freaking incredible. https://t.co/wtmHNvlLIX BadAstronomer (from Boulder) Mon Oct 28 22:10:52 +0000 2019
A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet -- which could make it the smallest in the solar system --… https://t.co/VTwmKbeKjQ CNN Mon Oct 28 16:30:06 +0000 2019
We might be getting a new dwarf planet! Turns out #Hygiea, the 4th largest asteroid orbiting between Mars & Jupiter… https://t.co/AgO3WgkHun sandygrains (from Bengaluru, India) Tue Oct 29 09:53:59 +0000 2019
Asteroid Hygiea May Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System https://t.co/856JMDakuX https://t.co/jJzZ8M2OuG SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Mon Oct 28 20:07:35 +0000 2019
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