grain of sand, orbiting around the Sun d.

all of the above S

c. a tiny particle, often no bigger than a NO YES c. a comet Meteoroid Zone > T
b. a small minor planet b. an asteroid A
a. a rock from space found on Earth "shooting stars"? a. the Moon or Mars R
What is a meteoroid? Are meteoroids really A meteoroid can be a piece of what?
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d. all of the above c. the birthdays of certain astronomers >

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c. fireballs b. favorable weather conditions
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b. shooting stars of a particular comet in its orbit
a. Earth passing through the debris or will you survive???

c. a planet
called? a. falling stars

b. a meteor
What causes an "annual" meteor shower? Will you be vaporized
the

What are meteors incorrectly

a. a black hole
sometimes become?
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c. stars
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What does a meteoroid

atmosphere,
Enter Earth's
Danger Zone

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as what?
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never be found.

of rock, dust, or ice.

a. particles from space
playing with you.

b. fast moving streaks of

and will probably Will you be found???
You are one of 30,000

and monkeys are

meteorites that reaches

Meteors are often seen

You landed in the ocean
Zone

light made of tiny particles

Earth's surface each year!

You landed in the jungle Where will you land?

Land on
OOPS!
You were found by children You landed in a remote You landed in Antarctica where

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playing in a school yard, spot in the Australian desert your dark coloring makes you

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and never land!

but they didn't know where you are ready to be very visible on the white ice.
you were "special." found, just as soon as CONGRATULATIONS! You will
You're a meteoroid that will

formed when an asteroid hit

be found and carefully studied

off and launched into space!

travel through space forever

You are a meteoroid that was

someone comes by. . .

your planet. You were chipped

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Good Job!
1 SPACE GOOD LUCK NEXT TIME ! origin of our solar system!

You are a lucky

(hey, it happens!)
Earth's atmosphere

above the ground!

You almost made it
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space rock that was big Earth, the

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to Earth, but exploded

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without being vaporized.
Earth passed through the

enough to make it through Meteorite

What are the names of two famous meteor How many meteors could you

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path of a comet. Particles from
showers that occur annually? see in a typical meteor shower?
the comet's trail created a meteor
a. the Alphas and the Omegas a. 1–2
SPACE ROCKS

shower for viewers on Earth.

a game of meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites

b. the Leonids and the Perseids b. 1,000,000

and you get a

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You're traveling
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Where do meteoroids
NOT occur?
c. the Hatfields and the McCoys c. between 10 and a few hundred

"group discount."
solar system

with a large cluster

of other meteoroids,
a. throughout our
b. in the asteroid belt
c. on Earth
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Often meteoroids are what? Today you celebrated your Earth-observing satellite and A meteoroid can be made of what?

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a. the size of planets 4-1/2 billionth birthday! dented its protective a. metal (iron and nickel)
b. not much larger than a grain of sand metal covering. b. stone
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c. solid gold 2 SPACES GO BACK 2 SPACES
d. all of the above