The afternoon session at the field museum we learned about meteorites. We learned that there are 3 types of meteorites: Iron meteorites, stone meteorites, and meteorites that contain both. Also, meteorites have come very close to the earth's atmosphere and if a meteor came into Earth's atmosphere and it was big enough it could could cause a destruction like the end of the dinosaurs. Of course that is highly unlikely because scientists have cool inventions that allow them to detect meteors and alert people. It was fun and worth taking a day of of school because we got to learn about meteorites and Jim told us many things I didn't know about meteorites. I think the most interesting thing I learned was that a shooting star is really just a meteor that is going so fast it starts to burn up and when it starts to burn up the heat and pressure creates the indents we see on meteorites. I think we should spend money on researching meteorites because we could learn how and if the
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May 2013
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