Terra: The Nature of Our World Terra: The Nature of Our World LifeOnTERRA ("TERRA: The Nature of Our World"), now in its tenth season, is the award-winning science and natural history podcast series that explores the natural connections that propel life on Earth. Overseen by graduate students in the MFA program in Science and Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University, LifeOnTERRA distributes independently produced science, nature, cultural, and environmental films. The content of these podcasts are contributed by numerous independent filmmakers, lending their talent and voices to issues concerning life here on planet earth. Our World. Your Stories. The site provides a full archive of
Small Solar System body Small Solar System body A small Solar System body (SSSB) is an object in the Solar System that is neither a planet, a dwarf planet, nor a natural satellite. The term was first defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as follows: "All other objects, except satellites, orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as 'Small Solar System Bodies' ". This encompasses all comets and all minor planets other than those that are dwarf planets. Thus SSSBs are: the classical asteroids, with the exception of the dwarf planet Ceres; the trojans; and the centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects,