Status Updates From The Planets

“Is it an accident that the [our] planet possesses the only satellite precisely sized to create the spectacle of a total solar eclipse? Or is this the startling manifestation of the Sun’s hidden splendour part of a divine design?”

I love the writing style but I may have to dnf this. No where on my copy of the book does it mention it’s going to talk about Christianity every 5 words and it’s a science book.

Why are we talking about creationism in a science book bro 💀

The Kuiper belt is considered a planetary graveyard.

Pluto acts like a comet.

Pluto-Charon binary planets

Pluto is smaller than Mercury

They went looking for another planet because Uranus and Neptune’s maths didnt add up. Pluto was found by accident.

Herschel discovered Uranus but as the maths didnt work they realised there must be another planet out there … Neptune.

Uranium is named after Uranus.

Saturns rings/debris will never reform like earth’s moon and they’re too close to the planet and the tidal forces will keep them apart.

Jupiters moons

Jupiter is so big it captures comets in its orbit.

On Jupiter storms may continue for centuries.

Galileo named 4 of Jupiters moons after Cosimo medici and his brothers. Thats a good way to please his benefactor.

Mars moons phobos and deimos.

A day on mars lasts 24.5 hours.

The profession of cosmochemist exists.

Mars had primitive terrestrial bacteria at some point but they’re gone now.

Earthquakes on the moon are called Moonquakes.

Moon rocks are the driest things. Total absence of water.

Every moon of the year has a name.