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The rim of the larger craters would appear similar to a range of mountains as seen from the surface. Traveling through ... in diameter) might someday be turned into domed habitats. The meteor crater in Arizona is a good example of how a smaller lunar crater would appear to astronauts on the Moon. ---- Answer provided ...

They should be, as meteors are still hitting the Moon. There is no confirmed record of anyone seeing a meteor impact create a new crater on the Moon, but the seismographs left by the Apollo astronauts have detected hundred of meteor impacts on the lunar surface ...

... most are very tiny with just one or two meteors per hour. There are three fairly strong showers—60 to 100 meteors per hour—that occur each year; every once ... the average of a couple of times per century, we will have a meteor storm of several thousand meteors per hour. ---- Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

... 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 damage ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

... burned up by friction with our atmosphere. In space there is no atmosphere to stop meteors, but they are so tiny that they pose no threat of damage. Spacecraft are hit by them all the time. A larger meteor—about an inch across—could possibly cause damage if it were to hit ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

People in Kansas will see meteor showers, and meteors in the sky, just as often as people anywhere else. Larger meteors—those that survive their passages through the Earth's atmosphere and ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

... through the atmosphere and has landed on the Earth's surface. Usually only fairly large meteors become meteorites. ---- Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy Image ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

A meteor the size of a dust grain is too small to have any kind of life ... has, although this does not mean that they have actually had life on them. Large meteors, which could be considered as asteroids, could theoretically support life, provided life's other essentials ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

... and dust. Very small asteroids can be thought of as meteors, and the dust from comets' tails is what usually produces the meteors we see in our sky. ---- Answer provided by Alan ... .html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

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