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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. This list of impact structures on Earth contains a selection of the 190 confirmed craters given in the Earth Impact Database as of 2017. [1] [a] To keep the lists manageable, only the largest impact structures within a time period are included. Alphabetical lists for different continents can be found ...
Build The Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct the world. In a YouTube video, PippenFTS called for prospective participants to ...
(110–210 Earth radii) 6.36×10 6 –1.27×10 7: 6.80–7.10: The space dominated by Earth's magnetic field and its magnetotail, shaped by the solar wind. Earth's orbit: 299.2 million km 2 AU: 2.99×10 8: 8.48: The average diameter of the orbit of the Earth relative to the Sun. Encompasses the Sun, Mercury and Venus. Inner Solar System ~6.54 AU
Currently most of the objects of mass between 10 9 kg to 10 12 kg (less than 1000 teragrams (Tg)) listed here are near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). The Aten asteroid 1994 WR12 has less mass than the Great Pyramid of Giza, 5.9 × 10 9 kg. For more about very small objects in the Solar System, see meteoroid, micrometeoroid, cosmic dust, and ...
NASA just announced that they've found 219 potential planets, and of those, 10 are close to the size of Earth and could possibly sustain life. NASA finds evidence of 10 new Earth-size planets that ...
Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,220 km (760 mi), which is about 20% of Earth’s radius or 70% of the Moon's radius. There are no samples of Earth's core accessible for direct measurement, as there are for Earth's mantle.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt. A potentially habitable exoplanet that is roughly similar in size to Earth has been found in a system located 40 light-years away, according to a new study. The planet is ...
Earth is rounded into an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light-minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution.