Near Earth Objects
Adriana Ocampo
Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Occupation: Planetary Geologist
Year born: 1955
Research Areas: Meteorite Craters, Planets, Moons
Edward Ching-Te Chao
Occupation: Geologist
Year born: 1919
Research Areas: Meteorite impacts
"People don't believe, but you do your hard work. It takes time to gradually convince them. You always have to find new, better evidence."
Ursula Marvin
Credit: Charles Hanson
Occupation: Planetary Geologist
Year born: 1921
Research Areas: Meteorites, Moon Rocks
Hunting For Asteroids
Aimed at pupils aged 11-14 this workshop encourages pupils to ‘blink’ between several images, taken by the Liverpool Telescope, in a bid to find asteroids. The activity can then be extended to them using the LT Image software functionality to calculate the speed of the asteroids, or simply a discussion on what asteroids are and how we track them.
You can download the individual files needed for this activity below, or this zip file (53mb) contains them all.
Ceres
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/Justin Cowart
Consequences of NEO Impact
Credit: NASA/Bern Oberbeck/Dr. Kevin Azhnle
NEO Impacts
Peninsula showing a subtle indication of the Chicxulub
impact crater.
Credit: NASA/JPL
Near Earth Objects
Meteor Showers
Credit: David Kingham
Meteors, sometimes called shooting stars, are not stars at all, but small rocks burning up as they fall through Earth's atmosphere. Their super fast speed through the air causes them to burn up as they fall.
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