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Journey to the Center of a Shooting Star

Journey to the Center of a Shooting Star. by Lisa Goodall. What They Are Made Of?. Dust and rock As small as a grain of sand As big as an orange. What is a shooting star?. Not a star at all!!! It is a meteor. When can you see them?.

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Journey to the Center of a Shooting Star

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  1. Journey to the Center of a Shooting Star by Lisa Goodall

  2. What They Are Made Of? • Dust and rock • As small as a grain of sand • As big as an orange

  3. What is a shooting star? • Not a star at all!!! • It is a meteor

  4. When can you see them? • Millions of shooting stars fly across the sky each day • It happens in the daytime too! • You can see 12 an hour

  5. Where you can see them? • An open field like a soccer field • At night • Look up for 30 minutes

  6. Why are there shooting stars? • Meteors (pieces of rock) bang into air molecules • Meteors sometimes come crashing to Earth • 60 miles (95 kilometers) above the earth • They go very fast and start to glow white because they are burning

  7. Fallen Meteor “The fireball that streaked across western Canadian skies was witnessed by thousands…[he] believes it was a 10-ton fragment from an asteroid.” http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/29/pictures-of-canadian-meteorite

  8. A Wish Upon A Shooting Star

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