Asteroids and Meteors

Discover the differences between asteroids, comets and meteors. Learn how to track an asteroid, count craters on Earth and build your own asteroid in this collection of activities. Acknowledgements: many activities of this collection are by Europlanet.

Learn how to age craters with this Predict, Explain, Observe, Explain Activity!
Have fun, building asteroids using clay!
A literal Earth-Shattering experiment that will make us understand impact craters!
Using telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 we calculate its average speed and understand what a physical quantity is
Unveiling the mystery of "shooting stars": meteors, meteorites and meteroids