Journey to the Journey to the Center of a Center of a

Shooting StarShooting Starby Lisa Goodallby Lisa Goodall

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What They Are Made Of?What They Are Made Of?

Dust and rock Dust and rock As small as a grain As small as a grain

of sandof sand As big as an As big as an

orangeorange

What is a shooting star?What is a shooting star? Not a star at all!!! Not a star at all!!!

It is a meteorIt is a meteor

When can you see them?When can you see them? Millions of shooting stars fly across Millions of shooting stars fly across

the sky each daythe sky each day It happens in the daytime too!It happens in the daytime too! You can see 12 an hourYou can see 12 an hour

Where you can see them?Where you can see them? An open field like a soccer fieldAn open field like a soccer field At nightAt night Look up for 30 minutesLook up for 30 minutes

Why are there shooting Why are there shooting stars?stars?

Meteors (pieces of rock) bang into Meteors (pieces of rock) bang into air moleculesair molecules

Meteors sometimes come crashing Meteors sometimes come crashing to Earthto Earth

60 miles (95 kilometers) above the 60 miles (95 kilometers) above the earthearth

They go very fast and start to glow They go very fast and start to glow white because they are burningwhite because they are burning

Fallen MeteorFallen Meteor“The fireball that streaked across western Canadian skies was witnessed by thousands…[he] believes it was a 10-ton fragment from an asteroid.”

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/29/pictures-of-canadian-meteorite

A Wish Upon A Shooting A Wish Upon A Shooting StarStar