Students Exchange - Work & Travel

The Largest Unnamed Object in the Solar System Needs a Title—and You Can Help 2007 OR10 needs a snazzier moniker; the public can now choose between ‘Gonggong,’ ‘Holle’ and ‘Vili’

As the sky over Badlands National Park in South Dakota shifts by the minute from sun to shade to color to darkness, the landscape tells the story of time on a much slower pace. The stripes in the rugged rock formations reflect geologic periods going back almost 75 million years. Erosion of these wrinkled and rolling hills also reveals an impressive assemblage of fossils, evidence of long extinct creatures. Photo by Peter Nestler (www.sharetheexperience.org).