Showing posts with label asteroid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asteroid. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 February 2013

3s.2 Final frontiers: about metorites and asteroids

Watch this video. This happened in Russia last Friday. What can you see? 



Read this piece of news and answer the questions below on the blog: Asteroid zooms safely past Earth (CBBC Newsround)
  1. Is this news story about the same event you saw in the video? Why (not)?
  2. How fast did the asteroid fly?
  3. Who discovered it? When was it observed for the first time?
  4. Will this asteroid crash against the Earth soon? Why (not)?
  5. Find out about the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite on the internet.