My children are such geeks …….
Naomi: See this is Io, and its under such great pressure, that there are loads of volcano’s that explode so violently, they send lava into space.
Nathan: So that creates meteors
Naomi: Well no not really, although the particles are small, so they might get attracted into one of the rings around the bigger planets.
Nathan: You can’t see any meteor hits on that one
Naomi: Well that Europa, and there is a reason for that. Europa is all ice
Nathan: Oh I see, so the meteor is hot, and melts the ice when it hits
Naomi: This is Jupiter, do you see the red dot
Nathan: Thats a giant tornado huh?
Naomi: Yep. That dot is big enough to swallow the whole earth
Nathan: Well if it did that, we’d be dead
Naomi: If the planet moved out of its own orbit, we’d be dead just from that
Nathan: oh yes, we’d have to be hit by something pretty big to do that
