(Where Comets Come From) Discover
These are the shows of yesteryear, the pristine remnants of the origin of the solar system waiting frozen in the interstellar dark. Out here trillions of orbiting show banks and icebergs are stored, gently suspended about the sun. They cruise no faster than a small propeller-driven aircraft would, buzzing through the blue skies of the far off earth. The slowness of their motion just balances the gravity of the distant sun, and, poised between feeble contending forces they take millions of years to complete one orbit around that yellow point of light. Out here you are the third of a way to the nearest star. Or rather to the next nearest star: In the depth and utter blackness of the dark sky around you is entirely clear that the sun is one of the stars. It is not even the brightest star in the sky. Sirius is brighter and Canopus. If there are planets circling the star called the sun there is no hint of them from this remote vantage point . These trillions of floating icebergs fill an immense volume of space the ne
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Approximate Word count = 710
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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