Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites
Understating and Viewing Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites
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What you will learn
Large object impacts on Earth, the moon and throughout the solar system
Effects of atmosphere and erosion on impact sites
Differences and similarities between asteroids, comets and metereorites
What our ancestors through of comets and where they came from
Where comets originate from: Oort Cloud
Predicting comet appearances in the sky
Edmund Halley and halley's comet
The meticulous tracking of comets by the ancient Chinese and it's impact on the discovery of the true nature of comets
Comet composition and structure; dust tail, ion tail, nucleus and submilimation
The Kuiper Belt
Trans-Neptunian objects
Jupiter-Family comets
Comet naming conventions and discoveries
The International Astronomical Union
Comet Shoemaker and it high profile crash into Jupiter
Evidence of comet impacts throughout the solar system
Comets meet the Sun!
Comet speeds
Missions to comets for study
The Rosetta mission and the Philae comet lander
Periodic comets: long-term and short term comets
Asteroid composition
Missions to asteroids
The asteroid belt
Dwarf planets
Mining asteroids for metals and minerals
Asteroids with moon, tails and rings
Tracking potentially hazardous asteroids and near-Earth objects
What the difference between meteors and meteorites?
Meteors, Meteorites and the Earth - overview of known impact sights
Meteor Showers
Warm-up activities
Test Questions and Answers
Cross Curricular and Extension Activities
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07/02/2021
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