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University of Leicester: Comets, Asteroids & Meteorites

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Provides a general overview of comets, asteroids, and meteorites. Content includes ways to identify them in the night sky, as well as detailed information on each type of small body.

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Concepts
asteroids, comets, meteorites, meteors
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Additional Tags
asteroid belt, fireballs, long period comets, periodic comets, regolith, shooting star, small bodies, solar system, space debris, apollo's, dactyl, gaspra, giotto, halley's comet, ida, kuiper belt, oort cloud, toutatis, trojans, vesta, small body
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
NGSS
HS-ESS1-6