Very informative and in-depth site about meteors, meteorites and their impacts. This site provides lots of text to inform about meteors, lots of pictures of the different types of meteorites, tables and statistics about meteors and...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the properties of meteors.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the properties of meteors.

Students will learn the difference between a meteor and a meteorite. Students will perform an experiment to discover how the size and weight of an object determines the size of the impact crater.

Multilevel meteor game through which students can practice learning multiplication facts.

Blast a meteor that represents the correct multiplication problem.

This site from the American Meteor Society contains links to a calendar of meteor shower events and links to information on meteor showers. Also, contains information on comets.

This activity poses the question: What would happen if a meteor or comet impacted Earth? Students simulate an impact in a container of sand using various-sized rocks, all while measuring, recording and graphing results and conclusions....

A brief vocabulary overview describing the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteors.

In this activity, students investigate the size of crater that a meteor will make when it hits the Earth, and the various factors that affect the size. 'Meteors' take the form of different types and sizes of balls and objects.

As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site provides a series of topics on meteors answering questions such as what is a meteor, to providing information on types of meteors and studying meteors.

Explore the depths of space and science comprehensive information about the meteor showers in 2004, the transit of Venus, virtual reality, and other interesting science history.

View a lithograph set that includes pictures and brief descriptions of planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. While viewing the lithograph learn important dates and interesting facts about our solar system.

This is an annual calendar of meteors showers. It has an animation that shows the difference between meteors, meteorites and meteoroids.

'Meteor' hydrofoils (St Petersburg)

A grainy photo of a huge meteor impact crater in Arizona, United States of America.

Digital image of a meteor crater.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The meteor is orbiting one of the 3 planets in a circular orbit. Drag the point associated with each planet to the meteor to see its orbit around that planet.

This resource explains what comets are, where they come from, and how comets can cause meteor showers.

In this lesson, students learn about objects in the universe, including constellations, planets, meteors, asteroids, and comets.

What are Leonids? Where do they come from? Read and learn about those meteor showers on this site.

In this site, from the SkyServer of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey users hunt for stars, galaxies, quasars, asteroids and meteors. Learn what they look like and how to find them.

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At this site from Hawaii Space Grant College, students learn about various meteorite compositions in this yummy lesson plan. Six specific candies are used to represent meteorite characteristics. Students record their observations in...