毎日英語学習

こんにちは、毎日英語の文章に慣れるために英文を読んでいます

ここでは読んだものをアウトプットする目的で記事を書いています

読んでいただいた方のためになれば幸いです

いまだに読みづらいと思っているので今後の改善が課題です

今回は、太陽系についての記事です。

科学に関する文章は難しいですね

時々、専門用語が出てくるので理解するのが大変です。

でもわからなかった言葉を知れるのはとても良いことなので

これからも続けていきたいと思います。

The Solar System

In grade schilling, we were thought that the solar abatement consists of the sun, nine planets, and their moons.

It’s not that simple.

No one really knows how many planets there are because there is no settled scientific definition of a planet.

All astronomers agree upon the validity of the four terrestrial plantes —— Mercury, Venus, and Mars —— and the four gaseous giants —— Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune —— but arctic Pluto is a matter of great dispute.

In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a “dwarf planet.”

Pluto is about two-thirds the size of our moon and takes 248 years to orbit the sun.

The tiny body of ice travel in a strange elliptical orbit on a different plane the eight planets.

Its coldness, distance from the other planets, and warped path around the sun had led many scientists to believe that it was really a comet in the the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy debris on the outskirts of the solar system.

Pluto has a recently discovered rival on the Kuiper Belt, a hunk of frozen rock officially referred to as 2003 UB313 but informally called Xenia.

The object is three times farther from the sun that Pluto and has an even stranger 560-year orbit, tilted 45 degree off the plane of the rest of the planets.

But 2003 UB313 is larger than Pluto, and many scientists felt if Pluto deserved to be called a planet, then it did too.