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Astronomy Week 4

Astronomy Week 4. Counting Comets. Meteor. Flash of light produced when a naturally occuring small solid object (a meteroid) enters Earth’s atmosphere from space. People often call meteors shooting stars or falling stars. Meteroid. Meteroite in the Daytime. Fireballs.

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Astronomy Week 4

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  1. Astronomy Week 4 Counting Comets

  2. Meteor • Flash of light produced when a naturally occuring small solid object (a meteroid) enters Earth’s atmosphere from space. People often call meteors shooting stars or falling stars.

  3. Meteroid

  4. Meteroite in the Daytime

  5. Fireballs A very bright meteor that makes folks say OOH AHH! If it lights up the world around you. If you see it in the day…take notes!! It will hit earth! Note the time and location Note the path of the fireball for scientists

  6. Look UP! • Meteors last for a few seconds • Comets for days! • Meteors happen all the time, comets once or twice each year.

  7. Comets http://www.galaxyexplorers.org/newsletter/comet_fun_facts.asp

  8. Parts of a Comet

  9. Comet Danger

  10. Stardust Spacecraft

  11. Looking for Comets • Remember the sky is 360 degrees • So work the telescope slowly up/down or left/right all the way around • If you find a comet, report it to NASA, you could win money!!! • Cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html

  12. Making Indoor Planetariums • Large box • Paper plate and punch for constellations • Tape • Christmas lights • Skewers

  13. Simple Reflex Telescopes • Two plastic magnifying lenses • Two tubes • Tape • Pretty paper!

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