What Is The Difference Between a Meteoroid, a Meteor, and a Meteorite?
(Return to The Solar System page and click Meteoroids.) 3. What is a meteor shower? (On the Meteoroids page, click Show Me the Level 2 Version of This Page.) 4. The Leonids are very famous meteor showers. In what month do they occur? (On the Level 2 Meteoroids page, click Did You Know?) Leonids Made Easy at http://medicine.wustl.edu/%7Ekronkg/Leonidsez.html 5. How did the Leonid Meteor showers get their name? (Read What Are the Leonids?) 6. Which moves faster, a Leonid meteor or a spacecraft? (Read What Do the Leonids Look Like?) 7. What comet produces the Leonid showers? (Read Where Do the Leonids Come From?) 8. When can you see the next Leonid showers? (Read When Do the Leonids Occur?) Additional Meteor Activities for Grades K-4 • Letters of the Alphabet. Make a Space Alphabet Book. • Astronomy — Writing. Watch the ’98 storm on a Live Webcast. Encourage students to write a story or journal entry about the event. • Science. On the Starchild Web site, click The Solar System (Level 1)
A meteoroid is a piece of stone, metal, or dust that travels through space and sometimes enters the earth’s atmosphere. Most meteoroids burn up when they enter our atmosphere, and few ever reach the surface of the earth. When a meteoroid is large enough to he seen as it burns up in the earth’s atmosphere, it’s called a meteor. E
Let my mind roam for a moment and I’m rolling over her to stare at stars reflected in impossibly green eyes before crushing my mouth. Well look for the familiar fall constellations and maybe see some meteors heralding the beginning of the Leonid meteor showers. Once it hits you on the head it’s called a meteorite. Each of the planets gets several pages of coverage, with comets, meteors, and asteroids also receiving attention. International Comet Quarterly, Sky and Telescope Magazine. the geminid meteor shower happened last fall-winter 2007, but its peak was december 13-14. Solar System- Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids. Then ask students to use the Kid’s Space Solar System Color Pages to create models.
