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Where Did All the Stars Go?
Have you ever wondered why you can see stars in some places compared to other places? In this experiment you will find out just that!
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Stopped Dead in its Tracks
Chemical traces of an organism can often be detected long after it dies. In this activity, find out how!
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Searching for Meteorites
How do scientists put meteorites back together after impact? Learn more about it in this fun activity!
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Deep Impacts Comet on a Stick!
In this activity, you can learn more about comets as you make your very own model!
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Mud Splat Craters
What does a crater look like? What happens to a planet’s surface during an impact? What are the feature created during an impact? In this fun activity, you can find out!
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Make a Comet Model and Eat It
In this activity, you can learn about what comets and ice cream have in common!
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Its Just Right--Finding Life in the Universe
Did you know that temperature has a lot to do with whether life can exist or not? In this experiment, you can find out yeast's temperature tolerance! (Picture credit to Roto2esdios)
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Follow the Falling Meteorite
Have you ever heard of triangulation? In this activity, you can learn all about it as you use triangulation techniques to locate a fallen meteorite! (Picture Credit to Dr. Svend Buhl)
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Cosmic Chemistry: An Elemental Question
In this activity, you can learn more about the Periodic Table of Elements and the Genesis mission scientists' quest for elemental clues about the beginning of the universe!
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Cooking Up a Comet
In this activity you can make an impressive comet out dry ice, a delicious comet made of ice cream, and research famous comets on the internet! (Picture Credit to Jochen Teizer)
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Comet Origins and Travels
In this activity, you can learn more about where comets come from and their travels through the Solar System!
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Deep Impact Comet on a Stick
In this activity, you can build your own model of a comet, and then use the same process as real scientists and engineers to evaluate its weaknesses and strengths!
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Building Blocks of Planets
In this activity, you can learn all about how planets form, from the formation of chondrite meteorites, to the accumulation of dust particles into larger clusters!
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Making a Comet in the Classroom
In this activity, you can make your very own comet using dry ice!
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Asteroid Resources (Edible Asteroid Mining)
In this activity, you get to plan your own mission to an asteroid! You'll also get to simulate a miniature mining expedition of an edible asteroid.
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Make Asteroids You Can Eat!
In this activity, you can learn more about asteroids while making a delicious treat you can eat! Make sure you find an adult to share this activity with you, though.
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Stargazers
In the past, people remembered the positions and patterns of stars by seeing them as pictures from famous stories. On this cool website, you can see how good you are at matching the …
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Sky Slide Puzzle
Piece together different picture of the universe in these cool online slide puzzles!
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<Deep Space> Space Memory Game
Do you have a good memory? Test your abilities with this space matching game!
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The Universe Crossword Puzzle
How much do you know about the intricacies of the universe? Test your knowledge (and learn much more) with this online crossword puzzle!
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Tails of Wonder
In this game, you can help the Stardust spacecraft capture comet dust and bring it back to Earth!
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Black Hole Rescue!
How much do you know about black holes? In this game, you can save words before they are sucked into a black hole, and learn about black holes in the process!
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