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Earth Escapes Obliteration by Comet
In this article, you will learn about a comet that "almost" hit our planet Earth.
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How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets
How did the Earth first get water? Can other planets do the same thing? In this article, you can find out!
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Cosmic Car Crash
In 2005, NASA intentionally crashed the spacecraft Deep Impact into Comet Tempel 1. In this article, you can find out why!
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Craters and Meteorites
Do you know how craters are formed? By doing this simple experiment you will learn the answer.
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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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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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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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Edible Rocks
Do you know very much about meteorites? In this activity, you can learn more about these space rocks using some of your favorite candy bars!
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George Observatory
Come to the George Observatory, a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, to learn all about space! This observatory has three domed telescopes, a Challenger Learning Center for Space Science Education, and even a meteorite exhibit displaying fragments of several famous meteorites!
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Dino Extinction
Scientists believe that the widely accepted asteroid collision may not have been the only the thing that killed the old rulers of the world. The earth's climate had already been going…
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The Day All Life on Earth Almost Ended
What would happen if a bunch of asteroids hit the Earth? Read one scientist's theory about what might have almost happened in 1883!
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Russian City Hit by Meteor: 1,200 People Hurt
Did you know that a meteor recently hit the earth? Watch this video of a meteor hitting Russia on a normal day.
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Meteor Showers
On this chart, you can see the best nights to see meteors in 2012! Picture credit to European Southern Observatory (ESO)
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