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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site provides a series of topics on meteors answering questions such as what is a meteor, to providing information on types of meteors and studying meteors.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Types of Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site discusses the primary types of meteorites including iron meteorites, stony-iron meteorites, and stony meteorites.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site provides information on both collecting and identifying meteorites. Topics covered include falls and finds, hot desert meteorites, Antarctic meteorites, and more.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Mineral Science: Division of Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of meteorites, what they are, what types there are, and a collection of reading resources to understand more about these objects falling from the sky.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Infographic: Chemical Abundances: A Meteorite

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the chemical composition of a meteorite, identify elements and their abundances in meteorites, and take an in-depth look at iridium with this downloadable infographic.
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Other

Armagh Planetarium: Meteorites: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the origin and movement of meteorites and other space rocks.
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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover fascinating facts about meteorites, pieces of asteroids that originate in outer space and survives their passage through the atmosphere to reach the ground.
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Views of the Solar System

Views of the Solar System: Meteoroids and Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the latest scientific information about meteoroids and meteorites through a vast archive of photographs and scientific facts.
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Other

University of Leicester: Comets, Asteroids & Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a general overview of comets, asteroids, and meteorites. Content includes ways to identify them in the night sky, as well as detailed information on each type of small body.
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Nine Planets

The Nine Planets: Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts

For Students 9th - 10th
Very informative and in-depth site about meteors, meteorites and their impacts. This site provides lots of text to inform about meteors, lots of pictures of the different types of meteorites, tables and statistics about meteors and...
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Other

The Meteorite Exchange: What Is a Meteorite?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about meteorites with links to the latest meteorite news and articles.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: What Is a Meteorite?

For Students 9th - 10th
As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site answers the question, what is a meteorite? The two main topics covered include where meteorites come from and where meteorites are found.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Meteorites

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brief article examines what meteorites are, the different types, and where they came from.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Science World of Astronomy: Snc Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
View a chart displaying various kinds of meteorites collected on earth and read a technical article describing the manner in which they are studied. Provides a link to more information about the planet Mars and the role it plays in the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Meteor or Meteorite

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn the difference between a meteor and a meteorite. Students will perform an experiment to discover how the size and weight of an object determines the size of the impact crater.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Even Thor Would Have Approved of King Tut's Meteorite Dagger!

For Students 9th - 10th
King Tut's dagger came from Outer Space? How is that possible? Take a look at what researchers have discovered about the unique medium the sharp tool is made from. Find comprehension questions and vocabulary terms.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Craters and Meteorites

For Students 3rd - 5th
Have you ever heard that the moon is made of cheese? Even though the craters on the surface of the moon resemble holes in Swiss cheese, we know that this common myth is not true. Find out how craters are formed and why they are different...
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NASA

Nasa: Our Solar System Lithograph Set

For Students 9th - 10th
View a lithograph set that includes pictures and brief descriptions of planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. While viewing the lithograph learn important dates and interesting facts about our solar system.
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University of Hawai'i

Asteroid Heating: A Shocking View

For Students 9th - 10th
This April 2004 article provides insight and one view into the world of asteroid heating, the age of meteorites and new theories in the changes in shocked and unshocked chondrites. Some great photomicrographs.
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University of Hawai'i

Hawaii Space Grant College: Edible Rocks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
At this site from Hawaii Space Grant College, students learn about various meteorite compositions in this yummy lesson plan. Six specific candies are used to represent meteorite characteristics. Students record their observations in...
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Curated OER

Ny Times: Locating Meteorites Lesson Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students explore how locations around a meteorite provide information about the meteorite?s orbit. They then learn about triangulation techniques, create imaginary cities in which meteorites are ensconced, and provide...
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NASA

Nasa Star Child: Meteoroids (Level 1)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out where falling stars come from. Audio content included. Vocabulary words linked to a glossary of terms. Printable version available.
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Other

Virtual Exploration Society: Leonid A. Kulik

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Leonid Kulik, Soviet meteorite expert, who made several expeditions in the 1920's to the site of mass destruction in Siberia possibly caused by a meteorite.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Minerals

For Students 9th - 10th
Australian Museum Online has a collection of rocks and minerals. Read about a rock from Cape Horn, the Jenolan Cave minerals and the "Barratta Meteorite."

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