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Also Try Meteors and Meteorites Materials Asteroid Belt Coloring Book (EnchantedLearning.com) Provides a picture, including the location in the solar system. 1-05 Asteroids (Wikibooks.org) Provides a description in simple language. 1-05 Multimedia Asteroid Animation (CNN and NASA) Provides an animation of an asteroid approaching the earth. Requires Quicktime Player. Papers Asteroid - Near-Collision With Earth (CNN) Provides information on the mile wide asteroid 1997 XF11, which is expected to pass 30,000 miles from the earth in 2028. 11-99 Asteroid Exploration (JHUAPL) Provides information about the Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous (NEAR) Mission to orbit the asteroid Eros 433 in 1999. Asteroid NT7 Unlikely to Hit Earth (CNN News) "The asteroid, dubbed 2002 NT7, is travelling at 28 kilometres per second and there is a chance, initial calculations indicate, that it could hit our planet on February 1, 2019." "However, scientists said on Wednesday that the calculations are preliminary and the risk to the planet was low." 7-02 Asteroid Reports to Prevent an Extinction Level Event (National Geographic) "The Minor Planet Center, a clearing house for asteroid observations, receives up to 15,000 new sightings a day from the LINEAR telescopes alone." "The Center is part of a (U.S.) 3.5-million dollar-a-year NASA program, called Spaceguard, that locates asteroids in Earth's neighborhood. This program focuses on the estimated 1,200 to 1,500 larger asteroids in our area that are over 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) wide and could be potential planet killers, like the one that probably killed the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago." 4-05 Asteroids (Hamilton) Includes articles and pictures of asteroids. Astronomy - Collisions with Asteroids or Comets (JHUAPL) Provides educational information, such as a coloring book, a quiz, and a model of a spacecraft, related to the possibility of collisions from asteroids or comets. Astronomy - Mission to Visit an Asteroid (CNN) Summarizes the plan by Japan to land on an asteroid and then have the spacecraft return to earth with a sample. Visitors sometimes misspell as astroid or astroide. 6-02 Chicxulub Crater (Space.com) "When a giant space rock slammed into Earth 65 million years ago near the present-day village of Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula, not only did it wipe out a lot of dinosaurs, it left behind a huge crater and, inside that pock, an even bigger mystery." 03-06 Extinction Level Event (National Geographic) "Scientists studying the fallout from a huge asteroid that crashed into Earth 65 million years ago have gained better understanding of the event that most likely took out the dinosaurs and much other life on the planet." "The asteroid that created the Chicxulub (pronounced CHEEK-shoo-loob) crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, was probably more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide, researchers estimate. The resulting crater was 110 to 125 miles (180 to 200 kilometers) wide and very deep. Today it is buried under several miles of limestone and is mostly underwater." 4-05 Questions About Asteroids (ASK and Astronomer for Kids) Provides questions and answers for kids and adults. Visitors sometimes misspell as astroids, asteroides, or astroides. 01-06 Spacecraft to Bring Back Sample from Asteroid (SpaceDaily.com) "If all goes well, Hayabusa will be the first spacecraft to bring home raw material from an asteroid, part of the primeval rubble left over from the making of the Solar System." 9-05 Projects Asteroid Collisions (Hamilton) Simulate an asteroid collision with the earth or another planet.. Asteroids (NASA - Jet Propulsion Lab) Provides basic information about asteroids that orbit the sun. Also provides directions on making an asteroid-like object out of potatoes. 3-00

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