Comets And Asteroids

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around Saturn, and the belt on the outside of the orbit of Mars.
These are pieces of larger rocks that were crashed into the remaining
pieces after millions of years of crashes.
Each ring system has distinctive features. Jupiter's rings are
tenuous and made mainly of dark particles the size of those in cigarette
smoke. The bright rings of Saturn are made of mainly frozen water in the
form of snowballs and chunks of ice. Saturn has thousands of rings, some
twisted, showing off dusty, spooky markings that form and change constantly.
The dark rings of Uranus seem to be made of charcoal or smokey materials.
Uranus has nine main rings, a few seem to breathe moving and expanding,
then pulling back in.
The rings are formed when a comet or asteroid sails very near the
surface, tearing off pieces that fly away and are slowed and caught in the
gravity of the planet, then spread out. Another way is when moons are
collided or collided into by a large piece of space matter and ...

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a comet were to get too close to earth, it is called an "error
box" which translates to bad news. That is when the possibility of a
collision may occur. If a comet were to hit the earth, it would be
approximately the same as if a 100 million megaton nuclear bomb were to be
detonated.
A collision of a comet into the earth would be a reasonably bad day.
The earth would shake, the atmosphere would heat to about 600 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the planet would burst into flames. All buildings would
crumble, the ocean would boil almost to the core, and the plates that make
up the earth would separate enough to create new volcano strands. Then a
cooling cloud would envelop the earth for ...

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