[meteorite-list] school project and study topics

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:38 2004
Message-ID: <120320032300.5700.3ddb_at_att.net>

Robert, Wendi and others,

Yes...one more question for your list. Why do meteorites cost so #%$!_at_# much?
They are just rocks you know.


Great list to create a curriculum from...a few textbooks, lectures, an
engrossed lifetime, etc. I look forward to your findings and website.

John

PS
I'll be teaching meteorites to 4 classrooms of 6th graders next week.

 





> I'm building a list of potential middle and high school meteorite related
> study, report, and lab projects. I'll eventually turn it into a resource
> web page.
> I'd appreciate sincerely if everyone could add everything they can think of
> to the list.
> Thanks!
> -Robert Beauford
>
> Here's a start:
>
> What are chondrules and what is their significance?
>
> How is fusion crust formed? How do meteorites change as they fall? What
> forces act on them, and what do those forces do?
>
> Why are meteorites important in understanding our past?
>
> Why are they important to our future, and what are 10 resources exploitable
> from asteroids? How could they be recovered and used?
>
> What technologies are neede to make the exploitation of asteroids for their
> resources possible? Create a 'roadmap' or plan of research and discovery
> that can get us from here to there.
>
> What are the differences between chondrites, achondrites, stony irons, and
> irons, and how do they relate to planetary formation?
>
> How old are meteorites? Why are they older than earth rocks and younger
> than the galaxy? How do we know their age?
>
> How are meteorites like inexpensive space probes? What have we learned from
> them as such?
>
> How do we know where meteorites come from?
>
> What are the pro's and con's to the competing theories of tektite
> formations?
>
> Describe the potential threat posed by meteorite impacts, and what we are
> doing now, and might do in the future about it?
>
> What is the KT boundary, what is its significance?
>
> How are meteorites identified?
>
> Test for nickel, iron, etc (is it a meteorite?)
>
> Research NWA 482 (etc.), what is an anorthositic impact melt breccia, how do
> we know it's lunar?
>
> How do we know Martian meteorites are Martian?
>
>
>
>
>
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