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griffin · 09-12-2015, 06:44 AM

Yoongi was okay now, yes? Penelope returned to her seat. Meteors, meteorites, meteoroids, and asteroids. She jotted down notes on the definitions of those terms. Pet rocks being dropped into the sand! Look, they were making craters! It was fun to see how pet rocks could be used to teach astronomy. Could Luna be out on her desk? Penelope got her pet rock Luna out and put the rock on top of her notes. "The diameter of the craters was bigger when the rocks had a higher velocity." Craters. Crashing into things. Sounded like one of those activities that she would not be entirely comfortable with. Penelope was a ~~fifth year~~ Lieutenant Commander now. This was the year that she would not panic when faced with an activity in astronomy class. She was supposed to be watching out for younger students or something like that, not dying or crying.

SPOILER!!: notes

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griffin DMAC & DERP Snidget Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 2,710 Hogwarts RPG Name: Devin James Horton Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Deanna Joyce Horton Gryffindor Second Year x1	Teapot Occamy\| gryphons&giraffes&goats,OH MY \| chaser of the truth \| flutiful❧ Yoongi was okay now, yes? Penelope returned to her seat. Meteors, meteorites, meteoroids, and asteroids. She jotted down notes on the definitions of those terms. Pet rocks being dropped into the sand! Look, they were making craters! It was fun to see how pet rocks could be used to teach astronomy. Could Luna be out on her desk? Penelope got her pet rock Luna out and put the rock on top of her notes. "The diameter of the craters was bigger when the rocks had a higher velocity." Craters. Crashing into things. Sounded like one of those activities that she would not be entirely comfortable with. Penelope was a ~~fifth year~~ Lieutenant Commander now. This was the year that she would not panic when faced with an activity in astronomy class. She was supposed to be watching out for younger students or something like that, not dying or crying. SPOILER!!: notes The difference all comes down to a question of location. Each are made of the same basic materials – minerals and rock – and each originated in space. asteroid A large rocky body in space, in orbit around the Sun. Asteroids are always found in space. meteoroids meterOID is in the VOID A much smaller rocks or particles in orbit around the Sun. meteors meteOR above you SOARs If a meteoroid or asteroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and vaporizes, it becomes a meteor, which is often mislabeled a shooting star. meteorites meteorITE is in your SIGHT If an asteroid or large meteoroid survives its fiery passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and lands on Earth’s surface, it is then called a meteorite. Dwayne Johnson, the largest rock, made the largest crater. The size of the rocks was the only difference in creating the craters.The rock with the highest mass made the largest crater. Bigger meteorites make larger craters. __________________