When will the big one hit? Or has it hit already? In watching the Nova Special: Meteor Strike and the movie Armageddon we will look for fact or fiction. Did the movie get it right or was it just “bad” science. In Meteor Strike we follow Astrophysicist Peter Brown after a meteor strikes Chelyabinsk‚ Russia on February 15‚ 2013. We will see how Dr. Brown researches the explosion of a fireball over Russia‚ analyzes all the video footage‚ photos and evidence and comes to his conclusion of his initial
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Meteors Slide 1: Meteors‚ Meteoroids‚ and Meteorites: Meteoroids are small pieces of debris (usually from comets or asteroids) that are on a collision course with Earth Meteroids hitting the Earths atmosphere are called meteors If the meteors survive and strike the Earths surface‚ they are meteorites Slide 2: Meteor Showers Happens when there is a spike in the number of meteors streaking through the night sky. The radiant of the shower is the point in the sky from which the meteors come
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Meteorites are rocks from space‚ which land on Earth‚ attracted by her gravity. The shooting stars that you see at night‚ are actually burning meteors that fall on Earth from outer space! This is the first of many interesting facts that are going to follow. Why do meteorites fall? For the same reason why anything falls on Earth - ’Gravity’. Very few can escape it! Meteorites have their origin in outer space. They are relatively small pieces of dust and debris‚ usually left behind in the wake of a
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The origin of the word meteorite came from the Greek word meteoreon which literally translates to “something high up” or “in the air”. It was used to describe a celestial phenomenon known as a meteor. In the late 19th century‚ astronomers derived the word meteorite to describe a meteor that hits earth. Meteorites hurl down our planet as streaks of light. Nowadays‚ people generally use the term “falling star” or “shooting star”. People who are lucky enough to witness a meteorite falling from the
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Meteor Shower "Falling stars"‚ “shooting stars" or meteors are the tiny spots of light that splash across the night sky‚ which are insignificant bits of rock from space. A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to glow from one point in the night sky. Shower meteors enter our atmosphere at speeds up to 71 km/s. They radiate because friction with air molecules heats them to extreme brightness. Almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth’s
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Meteors and Comets My topic for this book report is meteors and comets. In fact that is also the title of my book where I got this information from. The author of my book is Gregory L. Vogt. Three main facts that I have learned are when meteors travel through space they are no longer called meteors‚ they are now called meteoroids. How meteoroids are formed‚ and how scientists believe that comets are very old. I chose this topic because meteors and comets have always interested me‚ and because
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Fossils Fossils are the remains of ancient organisms‚ usually animals and plants but there are also minute bacteria and occasionally fungi. They are preserved by natural processes of burial. Most are entombed in sediment i.e. mud‚ silt or sand which with time transforms into a sedimentary rock such as sandstone. Rarely‚ fossils are enclosed in ash erupted from volcanoes‚ resin that oozes from trees and hardens into amber‚ or natural tar seeping from the ground. Normally only the resistant hard
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL Prepared for Meteor Motorcycle Company Good Stuff! Dated: September 7th‚ ____ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Currently‚ Meteor needs to understand how its customers regard four brands relative to each other: Meteor‚ Comet Chopper‚ Harley‚ and Big Dog. Also‚ because of the unexpected sales success of the Comet Chopper motorcycle‚ Meteor needs to understand the major factors for the appeal
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Meteor BVRAAM The Meteor is a fast and highly manoeuvrable Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVRAAM) air-to-air weapon. Guidance is provided by an active radar seeker benefiting from enhanced technologies drawn from the MBDA Aster and Mica missile programmes. The meteor was designed to equip the Euro fighter Typhoons of the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF)‚ Germany’s Luftwaffe‚ Spain’s Ejército del Aire and Italy’s Aeronautica Militare Italiana‚ the British and Italian F-35s (both in the Air Force
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characteristics. Meteor-A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere is known as a meteor. If you’ve ever looked up at the sky at night and seen a streak of light or ‘shooting star’ what you are actually seeing is a meteor. A meteoroid is a piece of stone-like or metal-like debris which travels in outer space. Most meteoroids are no bigger than a pebble. If a meteoroid falls into the Earth’s atmosphere‚ it will begin to heat up and start to glow. This is called a meteor. If you have
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