(meteorobs) [Student project on stopping asteroid impacts]

[John Karalekas]

Hi Barabara

**Meteor streaks accross the sky and fades out
**Metorite strikes the ground
**Fireball flares up and may or may not make it to the
ground and become meteorites
**A comet that enters the earths athmosphere and is
undiscovered can be any of the above, depending on
appearance.
**Asteroids are space rocks(minor planets) and would
be a meteor or metorite if it fell to the earth and
was not discovered yet.

confusing, yes but just remember that a meteor is a
meteorological phenomena. It has to do with the earths
athmosphere and it not really a meteor till it it
encounters the athmosphere.

--- Barbara Hagood
<barbara_s_hagood at fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us> wrote:

> [
> Editor's Note: We surely don't want to stop ALL
> meteoroids from reaching 
> earth, or we meteor shower watchers would have
> nothing to watch! But I hope 
> some of our readers can direct Ms Hagood to useful
> info on the general topic 
> of hazardous asteroids, and some of the more or less
> feasible proposals that 
> have been made for diverting dangerous asteroids
> from impacting earth.
>   -Lew Gramer <owner-meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> ]
> 
> 
> I am assisting my students on a research paper
> titled, "How Can We Stop
> Meteors from Hitting the Earth?" Please send any and
> all information on the
> topic.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Barbara S. Hagood
> Title 1
> Redan, GA USA
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