The Shunga Creek Meteorite

One day me and my friend were fishing at the Shunga creek in Topeka Kansas, this place usually
has hundreds of different fish in a small area, and some are huge, and there in a creek you could
almost jump across. After a few hours, with no luck ,we went back towards a small field on the
way I found a small dark rock with shiny metal flakes inside. I went home, and discovered it was magnetic. But not as magnetic as magnetite, or slag. This rock was very, very small however
appears like a meteorite. The next few days I found many, many more. In a certain area. A few
weeks later I found a big dip in the ground. The circumference, was a few hundred feet , and nine
feet deep at the center. It must have been pretty old considering there is a forest was on the north side
In the next few weeks I gathered more than one hundred small samples. The biggest an inch across I
was waiting for the big one, and after a few months, I found It.

I was on my way to another friends house when I felt something under my foot. I looked down and
saw a large Dark rock. This Rock like the smaller ones had many shiny flecks inside, and was magnetic. Then, the next day I found four more rocks about the same size. It is a Major find, its
believed to be an ordinary chondrite, or an achondrite, that exploded over the landscape. Scattering
meteorites around the area. 

NUCLEAR WEAPONDRY

Nuclear weapons are the most powerful weapon made so far. They are very destructive destroying miles around the detonation zone. They have been used in world war 2 in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki Japan and killed thousands of people. These bombs ended world war 2 they work by splitting an atom and causing a massive chain reaction. This is the same reaction nuclear energy plants use. And like Chernobyl its very devastating if used wrong. Nukes are uses in bombs and nuclear warheads. After the cold war world leaders decided to stop testing nukes. There are so many nukes in the world it could cause world extinction if all of the nukes explode

What killed the dinosaurs?
A few million years ago a huge event occurred, causing hundreds of species of animals
to die off. What caused this? It was first thought that an asteroid impact caused the mass wipe out of animals and killed 70% of all life on earth. This is what most people believe. But there are more possibilities. One example is a rare event called a supervolcano. There are 7 known Supervolcanoes,and one is active. Its a well known supervolcano named Yellowstone. Famous for its hundreds of geysers. Mud pots, and thermonuclear ponds. A supervolcano leaves a giant crater called a caldera. An eruption of this scale can cover the entire country and effect the world for years. It produces thousands of times more ash than Mt St Helens. So here what could have happened. 1. An asteroid impact 2.. an supervolcanic eruption 3. both 1 & 2.

COMET ISON IS DEAD


Comet Ison was discovered January 2012 and was called the comet of the century
it was expected to shine brighter than the moon! But in early December the comet
zipped around the sun, the comet looked okay when it came around the sun. But gradually it started disintegrating into a cloud of glowing dust, made of rock, ice, and gas. Comet Ison was killed by the sun. the gravity of the sun pulled the comet to close
the gravity ripped the comet to shreds!

Are we alone ?

For thousands of years people have wondered if there is life beyond Earth. This question is yet to be solved. Most planets are inhabitable but Mars can still possibly hold life. Its got the right nutrients in the soil, has water ice, possibly unfrozen water,
and some carbon dioxide frozen into its surface. In 1996 a Martian meteorite was found in Antarctica. Scientist studied this space rock and discovered fossilized bacteria inside the rock. This proved that Mars used to have a watery surface with a good atmosphere to produce life. The meteorite was named Allen Hills  84001. But now Mars has a very low amount of water, and a thin poison filled atmosphere. Life might be somewhere on the surface or underground where there could be more liquid water. But Mars isn't the only place were life might exist. There are many moons that could have more water then Mars. Jupiter's moons Ganymede, and Europa both could have giant underground water oceans. In fact Europa might have more water then Earth. Saturn's moons Titan, Enceladus , and Dione could all support life. Titan has a thick atmosphere and has lakes of liquid methane. Enceladus has crystals of pure water, from erupting water volcanoes, and Dione has markings on it similar to are moon's surface but Dione's marks were probably caused by water flooding the surface and then freezing. These are all good places for life to exist but there could also be life outside are solar system its a big universe.

Jupiter Planet Or Young Star ?

Jupiter is known for its size and weather. Jupiter is the biggest of all the planets in the solar system. Scientists discovered that Jupiter is made  of  mostly hydrogen , and helium gasses. This puzzled scientists, because the sun is also made of these gases. There are few ideas of how this occurred . Some say that it had the right amount gases but it wasn't big enough to cause fusion. So the hydrogen didn't heat up to much. Others think that it didn't have enough hydrogen or helium to burn at all. I believe that when the sun was born the disk that surrounded the sun started getting crushed. This disk had a lot of hydrogen and helium but it wasn't to much so, it started forming a normal planet, but had a very high amount of these gases. So I think that Jupiter is just a normal planet made out of star-like gases. However you can considerate it a star because its a solar system of moons