1. New Area of Focus: Main Asteroid Belt.
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2. Jupiter
Asteroid Belt
Mars
Mercury
Earth
SUN
Venus

3. Asteroids are large rocky and metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered planets.
Can be hundreds of miles wide!
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4. Chelyabinsk Asteroid (February 15th, 2013)
Injured 1,200 people in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Created a supersonic shockwave that collapsed roofs and blew out windows.
Parts of the asteroid exploded 42 miles above the ground.
Weighed 10 tons and was traveling at 45,000 mph
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5. Chelyabinsk Asteroid. February 15th, 2013
Created a supersonic shockwave that collapsed roofs and blew out windows in the impact area.
Parts of the asteroid exploded 42 miles above the ground.
Weighed 10 tons and was traveling at 45,000 mph
Parts of the asteroid exploded 42 miles above the ground.
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6. Meteorite: Small space matter that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space.
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7. Largest known meteorite
Hoba West Meteorite
Western Namibia
Largest known meteorite
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8. Willamette Meteorite

9. Found in Oregon 1902,
Believed to have landed in snow during ice age and then traveled as there was no impact crater.

10. Meteor Crater, Arizona
50,000 years old.

12. Pingualuit Crater, Canada
1.4 million years old.

13. Lake Manicouagan, Canada
212 million years old.
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14. Chicxulub Crater
65 million years ago.

15. No Dinosaur Fossils Tertiary Period Cretaceous Period Dinosaur Fossils
A layer of Iridium can be found across the globe in rock layers around 65 million years ago.
Iridium is found on Meteorites.
No Dinosaur Fossils
Tertiary Period
Cretaceous Period
Dinosaur Fossils

16. The age of dinosaur dominance was over.
“I love a good Mammal.”

17. The age of mammals begins.
“It’s nice not having all those dinosaurs around, now I can rise to power.”

18. Tunguska event (1908)
A (comet or meteorite) exploded just above the surface of the earth causing a massive explosion.
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19. Video Link! Meteorite Impact caught on tape. (Optional)
Is it real or fake? You decide. Answer…

20. Meteoroid: Small (dust size to coin) piece of matter that hits the earth's atmosphere and (burns up).
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21. What’s wrong with calling this a shooting star?
It’s not a star. It’s a meteoroid burning up from the friction in the atmosphere.

22. A B CFU: Meteorites can also be pieces of planets.
Which is a meteorite from mars and which is from the moon? A B

23. A B Meteorites can also be pieces of planets.
Which is a meteorite from MARS and which is from the MOON? A B

24. CFU: Which is an asteroid, meteorite, and meteoroid?

25. Which is an asteroid, meteorite, and meteoroid?

26. It’s important to learn as much as possible from a passing NEO as it will likely return.
(Near Earth Objects)
Inclination
This is why scientists study eccentricity & inclination of planets & cosmic bodies!