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A meteor is a grain of dust (or perhaps a slightly larger object) that enters the Earth's atmosphere, and then burns up as a result of friction with the air.
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Category:Kids To Space
Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS
A rocket is a device that generates a propulsive thrust by exhausting a propellant at a high velocity. The momentum of the exhaust mass creates a reactive force on the rocket vehicle. Possibly the simplest example is a balloon. When inflated and released the air inside is ...
... space based on a per passenger mile basis as recorded by the airline industry is hundreds to thousands of times safer than flying on a plane. But flying on a plane is one hundred times safer than driving a car. Of course, flying on a plane is much more expensive than driving, and flying in space is millions of times more expensive than flying on a ...
Think about our solar system—nine planets orbiting our Sun. A galaxy is like that, only much bigger. Billions of stars, like our Sun, orbit something very massive, or heavy, in the center. That massive thing could be a very large group of stars, or even a giant black hole. That black hole could be as large as ...
Neutrons Neutron stars are the highly compressed remnants of stars that have died. They are packed so tightly that only neutrons can exist.
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A meteorite is a meteor that has survived its passage through the atmosphere and has landed on the Earth's surface. Usually only fairly large meteors become meteorites.
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Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS
... show Meteor showers are harmless—at least to those of us on Earth's surface. During a very strong meteor shower it is possible that a meteor (which is actually a dust particle) could strike a spacecraft and ... .html Click here
Category:Kids To Space
Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS
... of an impact causing a problem, the ISS is fitted with micro meteor shielding. This is composed of an outer thin metal sheet followed by an empty space followed by a blanket of composite material ... . If we know a piece of space debris is getting close, the ISS will perform an orbital burn to avoid the object. This is called a collision avoidance burn. However meteors cannot be tracked as ...
A meteor the size of a dust grain is too small to have any kind of life as we know it. There have been some larger meteorites that have contained chemicals similar to what life has, although this does not mean that they have actually had life on them. Large meteors, which could be considered as asteroids, could ... .html Click here
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Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS
A shooting star is not really a star but a meteor, where a usually small piece of material burns up in the Earth's atmosphere. During the year there are predictable meteor showers when the Earth passes ... clouds of debris that are orbiting the Sun, and in August we have the Perseid meteor shower.
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