Which is closer to the Earth, pole star or the asteroid belt?
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The asteroid belt idiot.  The closest star is 27 trillion miles away!
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225 million years is the best guestimate, so for a star that is 4.5 billion years old, that means it has completed 20 or 21 orbits so far,\n\nSome of the effects of this rotation include:\n\na) we get a different north pole star, every few thousand years. Polaris hasn't got a permanent job. It is merely the current occupant of pole position. \n\nPolaris has a visual magnitude of 1.97 (second magnitude). In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star. At magnitude 3.67 (fourth magnitude) it is only one-fifth as bright as Polaris. The first magnitude star Vega will be the North Star by AD 14,000.\n\nb) which stars are nearest to us will vary over time. Barnard's Star, currently 5.96 light years away (and the fourth nearest star) is moving towards us fast and will be 3.8 light years away (nearer than Proxima and Alpha Centauri therefore) and it will be the nearest star around AD 11,800.\n\nSo those astronomy textbooks will need rewriting, and not just because of Pluto's status being changed!
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I believe all the planets in our solar system formed about the same time, around 5 and a half billion years ago or so. I believe there is a younger solar system than ours around the star called Vega. It is in our galaxy and I believe it is around 26 light years away, the speed of light being 186,000 miles a second. The distance is the number of miles light would travel in 26 years, if that makes any sense. Vega is a blue star, a very young star. Our sun is a G star, a bit older. The stars are categorized O,B,A,F,G,K,M. The way to remember is the phrase "Oh, be a fine girl kiss me" with each letter corresponding to star categories. Vega is an O star, the youngest. I hope that isn't too complicated, I know your six.\n\nWhat you might do is get some colored balls to represent each of the star categories, some paint (in case the ball is the wrong color), and some cardboard, sticks, and glue. The M star is a red supergiant so a red dodge ball, the K is a red giant but not supergiant, so a red delicious apple, the O is blue-white, the G is golden, yellow-orange like our sun. The B, A, and F stars I do not know much about.
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Ceres is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one located in the asteroid belt. Its name is derived from the Roman goddess Ceres — the goddess of growing plants and of motherly love. It was discovered on January 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi. With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the asteroid belt, and contains approximately a third of the belt's total mass. Recent observations have revealed that it is spherical, unlike the irregular shapes of smaller asteroids with less gravity.\n\nCeres' astronomical symbol is a sickle, similar to Venus' symbol which is the female gender symbol and Venus' hand mirror.
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Imagine a line connecting the two stars at the front of the "dipper", continue it on the side where the dipper is "open" to a distance 5 times that between the two stars (the flag shortens this a bit!), and you will arrive at (or very close to) the pole star. Because of their role in locating Polaris, these two stars are often called "the guides." And by the way--the last-but-one star in the handle of the "dipper", named Mizar by Arab astronomers, is a double star, whose components are readily separated by binoculars--or, some say, by very sharp eyes during good viewing conditions.
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The nearest star, the Sun, is 93 million miles from earth. The second closest, Proxima Centauri, is a small, red star at 4.2 light years.
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The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter and is a huge belt composed mainly from rocks and ice, it's about 6 AU (Astronomical Units) in size, 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth or 87,000,000 Kilometers..☺
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The perihelion is a planet or comet's closest approach to the Sun. The Earth is at perihelion (the Earth is closest to the Sun) in January.
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Polaris is approximately 430 light years away. The earth as moves around the sun moves about 17 light minutes. So Polaris appears to move a little during the year but the amount is so small that it's not very noticeable.\n\nAdditional: Or to put it another way, it's like trying to tell if something 200 miles away moved about an inch.
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The asteroid belt is a very large volume of space.  From any one asteroid, the next nearest (known) asteroid is typically a million miles away.  So you're really not likely to hit anything, unless there are lot more asteroids than the known ones.
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No. The Earth's axis spins in a 46° diameter circle in a 26,000 year cycle. This motion is called precession. Polaris will be closest to the pole in about 100 years. In 14,000 years, Vega will be within 5° of the pole.
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north star is actually a pole star which is situates on the axis of the pole and it is the only star which does not moves and remains fixed in its position. in ancient times the people use to locate the direction by seeing the pole star as it is located in north. it was used by sailors tooo
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There have been many systems identified, some with multiple planets and a few with asteroid belts. The problem is that they are mostly discovered by measuring the minute movements of the star caused by gravitational influences of nearby orbiting objects, so most of the discoveries to date have been systems with relatively large planets (many times larger than our Jupiter) and quite close to the star so that the movement is more easily detected. Recently however, there have been more sensitive sensor arrays which have been able to resolve more "normal" configurations using sophisticated imagery, so there is hope for discoveries of systems more similar to our own in the near future. In any event, given the tremendous distances involved, the resolution of optical telescopes available in the foreseeable future would pretty much preclude any traditional photograph of such a system if it were to be found. There have been some rather blurry computer images generated from these other imaging systems, but I'd hardly call them photographs. Try monitoring <space.com>
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A shooting star is a meteorite burning up in our atmosphere.A meteorite is a small piece of space dust usually pea size,maybe a little larger or smaller.Comet are a collection of space debris loosely held together by its own gravity;thus the dust trail.Asteroids are space bodys usually of some size(a few hundred feet to several miles wide).Comets can be quit large as well and the tail is caused by the sun melting the comet.
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You can find the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune :P\nat a distance of 50 AU from the SUN.
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The closest star besides the sun is Proxima Centauri or V645 Cen and is about 4.5 light years away.
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As far as planets go, Mercury.  All the time.  No planet ever gets closer.  I'm not quite sure what these folks are trying to pull with "pluto" but the closest it ever gets to the sun is still over 26 times farther away than the earth's orbit.\n\nComets and asteroids can get really close to the sun, in fact there is a class of comets that we call "sungrazers" they actually fall into the sun and never return.