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1.Why is pluto not a planet ? Pluto is not a planet because astomers found some cold and icy rocks and pluto was one of the the little rocks, so people made pluto no longer a planet.



2.what are [|lunar eclipes]? When ever the moon passes throw a portion of the earths shadow it formes a lunar eclipse.The way it can occur is when the [|Sun], [|Earth], and [|Moon] are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. There is always a [|full moon] the night of a lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse is depended on the Moon's location relative to its [|orbital nodes]. The [|next total lunar eclipse] occurs on December 21, 2010. The next eclipse of the Moon is a penumbral eclipse on [|July 7, 2009].

3.What is a [|black hole]? A black hole is a hole in space that has such a big gravintatinel pull that nothing can escape not even a light cant escape. A black hole is a hole in space that does not have any light. A [|black hole was created]by a gravitational collapse of a massiv star. If a black hole were to suck you up it would rip you to pieces. The reason it would rip you to pieces is because of how strong the gravitationly pull is.

4. What is a astroid.
 * Asteroids**, sometimes called **[|minor planets]** are bodies—primarily of the inner [|Solar System]—that are smaller than planets but larger than [|meteoroids]. But exclude [|comets]. The distinction between asteroids and comets is made on appearance when discovered: Comets show a perceptible [|coma] while asteroids do not.[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/%28253%29_mathilde.jpg/260px-%28253%29_mathilde.jpg width="260" height="161" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:(253)_mathilde.jpg"]]

5. how big is the sun ? the sun is a star. the sun is 1.3 million bigger than earth. the sun's mass is over 333,000 times mass of earth.The sun also has lots of gravity.the sun is a star so it will not explode, the sun reheats and expands and earth vaporizes. Don't worry it will not happen in 5 billion years.