CREATION FOR KIDS OLD AND YOUNG!
The Creation articles written for kids are proving very popular with my adult readers also. They are very attention grabbing, easy to read and understand, The Universe cannot possibly be old. Make sure you keep up with this exciting ministry, subscribe to Creation magazine: https://creation.com/magazines To read the author’s biography just click on his live linked name at the top of his article below. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Creation for kids—Dwarf planets, Asteroids, and Comets by Jonathan Sarfati Published in 2022 The most massive object in our solar system is the sun. By far—it has 99.85% of the total mass. Most of the rest of the mass—0.135%—is the eight planets. Jupiter has by far the most—over 2½ times the mass of the other seven planets combined. But what of the remaining 0.015%? Most of that is the moons around the planets. But the remaining relatively small objects are still interesting. Dwarf planets The most famous dwarf planet is 134340 Pluto, or just Pluto. The American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) discovered it in 1930. He showed that it orbited the sun—once every 248 Earth years. Astronomers declared this the 9th planet of our solar system. It was named by the 11-year-old English schoolgirl Venetia Burney (1918–2009). She chose the name of the Roman god of the underworld (Greek: Hades). However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ruled that Pluto was not a planet but a dwarf planet. Pluto is much smaller than the planets; in fact, it’s a fifth of the mass of our moon. There are also other objects of similar size, such as Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, and Sedna. Eris is actually 27% more massive than Pluto. So the choice was to name all these objects as planets or demote Pluto to a dwarf planet like them. In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons space probe…