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University of Leicester: Comets, Asteroids & Meteorites
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
A brief vocabulary overview describing the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteors.
NASA
Nasa Space Place: Asteroid or Meteor: What's the Difference?
Learn the difference between asteroids and comets, meteoroids and meteorites, and more!
NASA
Nasa: Solar System Exploration
Enter our solar system to interact with the planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, and more. Investigate with NASA scientists and explore missions related to space exploration. Read facts, compare statistics, look through resources, and...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Astronomy for Kids: Comets and Meteors
Kids learn about comets and meteors in the science of astronomy including the coma and tail, meteorites, meteoroids, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud.
NASA
Nasa: Our Solar System Lithograph Set
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.
Fundación Cientec
Cientec: Tabla De Lluvias Mayores De Meteoros
This is an annual calendar of meteors showers. It has an animation that shows the difference between meteors, meteorites and meteoroids.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Does Meteor Size Have to Do With Crater Size?
In this activity, students investigate the size of crater that a meteor will make when it hits the Earth, and the various factors that affect the size. 'Meteors' take the form of different types and sizes of balls and objects.
University of Hawai'i
Asteroid Heating: A Shocking View
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.
Curated OER
Ny Times: Locating Meteorites Lesson Plan
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...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Piece of Dinosaur Extinction Asteroid Puzzle Recovered
The first meteorite fossil discovered in this period when tests can be run on it, was found at Chicxulub in Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico. Scientists believe it is part of the meteorite which made the dinosaurs extinct.
Other
Catastrophism and Mass Extinctions
An overview of Walter and Luis Alverez's theory that a large meteorite crashed into earth causing huge tidal waves, showers of ash, and an enormous dust cloud.
Other
Dinosaur Extinction: One More Hypothesis
"The survivals and extinctions at the close of the Cretaceous are such as might be expected to result from intensely hot winds such as would be generated by extra large meteoritic impacts." This article suggests that this theory should...
University of Hawai'i
Hawaii Space Grant College: Edible Rocks
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...
Fundación Cientec
Cientec: Que Son Las Leonidas?
What are Leonids? Where do they come from? Read and learn about those meteor showers on this site.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Meteoroids (Level 1)
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.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Comets
Amazing Science provides teachers with facts about comets that they can use as a reference or to stimulate class discussion. The science questions support the instructional activity's activities.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: Small Bodies
This site explores the smaller bodies in the solar system, namely the various asteroids and comets. Links are also provided for additional information on related subjects.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Star Child
StarChild from NASA defines and describes the Solar System in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. The website is broken down into two versions for the student, grade school and junior high.
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The Apollo Society: The Solar System
Contains a small set of images of solar system objects and a series of links to information about all solar system objects. Solar System Tours link to excellent image collections.
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The Telson Spur: The Solar System
This is a list of links to online resources related to the study of the planets. It has a literary theme associated with the Lewis Carrol poem "The Hunting of the Snark" with many quotes from literature and science. Navigation tools...
Other
Who Dunnit to the Dinosaurs?
"One of the great mysteries in science is the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic Era some 65 million years ago. Who (or more likely what) caused it is unknown and a subject of great debate." Many theories are touched...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Fruitful & Inventive Mind of Scientist Luis Alvarez
This article, reprinted from the fall 1979 LBL News Magazine, was written about Dr. Luis Alvarez and his part in the study of geological sediments and the great extinctions.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: An Overview of the Solar System
A detailed overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in the solar system.