Space Rock

This body more than 6 billion kilometres from the sun in the kuiper.

Space rock. In the second simile he describes the total quiet and stillness he experienced after the space rock landed. Similes in the first simile karl compares the speed of the space rock to a rapidly moving thundercloud. Additionally the space rock is only six metres long.

The surface of arrokoth an oddly flat object on the edge of the solar system may have been boiled away by heat from the sun. At that size the asteroid would simply burn up if it were to hit the earth s atmosphere appearing more as a fireball in the sky. It may feature distorted and reverberation laden guitars minimal drumming languid vocals synthesizers and lyrical themes of outer space and science fiction.

After the space rock lands he says that it was quiet like the earth and everything on it was holdin its breath what do these similes mean. They may also be known as neos near earth objects. Some of them are larger and are called minor planets or planetoids.

The term space rock was originally coined back in the 70s to describe the cosmic flights of bands like pink floyd and hawkwind. Whatever they may be called they have much to tell us about our solar system. How do they help you understand what karl saw and heard.