Lois+Marama

Destroyed in Seconds By: Lois Marama & Alinafe Malonje __ Star Centre __

__ Recent Impact Events __ The recent impact events include: 18th February 1995 in Japan it was called the Japanese Surprise. 29th September 1938 in Illinois, USA another meteorite hit. The first meteorite was reported to be seen in June 1939. On June 21st 1994 a meteorite hit Spain. On October 19 1977 Charles Kowal discovered asteroid 2060.

__ Evidence of Impact in the Past __ If a space rock of 10 kilometres across where to hit earth it would cause loads of damage like it did 65 million years ago. The first asteroid that was discovered was found by Giuseppe Piazzi on year’s day. It was a Ceres; it’s the biggest asteroid because it is 1000km in diameter.

__ The Nature of impact Objects, what they are, where they came from __ People once thought that asteroids came from broken planets, because if all the pieces of asteroids were put together it would make a planet approximately the size of the moon. Scientists think that the gravitational pull of Jupiter stopped them from creating a planet. * millions of years Destroyed in Seconds (Page 2)
 * Crater || Location || Age* ||
 * Manicouagan || Quebec, Canada || 212 ||
 * Kar- Kul || Tajikistan || 10 ||
 * Wolf Creek || Australia || 0.3 ||
 * Meteor Crater || Arizona, USA || 0.05 ||
 * Lonar || India || 0.05 ||